Six myths promoted by the new surviving sepsis guidelines

emcrit.org February 7, 2017

The Rivers trial and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign popularized sepsis protocols, which saved lives. Massive accomplishment. However, that doesn’t validate the individual components of early goal-directed therapy. Any protocol involving early identification and intensive care of septic patients probably would have worked.

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