Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings.

Eighty percent of the worldwide deaths due to infectious diseases and thereby sepsis occur in resource-limited settings (low- and middle-income countries). Current international sepsis guidelines cannot be implemented without adaptations towards these settings, due to lacking resources and a different spectrum of infectious diseases causing sepsis. This is why members of the Global Intensive Care working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) as well as the Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit (MORU, Bangkok, Thailand) - among which the Editors - have  formed a group of experts to develop a comprehensive set of  recommendations based on both current scientific evidence and clinical experience of clinicians working in resource-limited settings.

The set of recommendations assembled in this book includes an overview chapter outlining the current challenges and future aspects of sepsis management in resource-limited settings as well as general recommendations on the structure and organization of intensive care services in resource-limited settings. Specific recommendations on how to recognize and treat patients with sepsis and septic shock in these settings have been grouped into seven specific topics.