Treatment for sepsis can save lives. This needs high quality clinical care, especially in primary care clinics, and hospitals including emergency, critical and operative care areas.
The 70th World Health Assembly called for the development of guidance on sepsis prevention and management to support Members States in “Improving the prevention, diagnosis and clinical management of sepsis” [WHA resolution 70.7].2
Patients with sepsis need high quality care from the first point they reach medical services until they fully recover. Optimising their outcomes therefore involves early recognition, emergency care, targeted antimicrobial therapy, infection source control, intensive monitoring, detection of clinical deterioration, and prevention of organ failure and complications. Effective and efficient critical care and early operative care can further reduce mortality and morbidity.
This WHO guideline will use the best evidence to help patients and the healthcare workers looking after them.3 It will focus on making global recommendations for early recognition, initial resuscitation, and the early treatment of sepsis during which periods patients are most vulnerable.
The recommendations will support to Member States to develop and implement national programmes for the management of sepsis in adults and children. The wide intended audience includes health care workers (health professionals including doctors, nurses, intensivists/critical care staff, ambulance staff), policy-makers, their expert advisers and technical/ programme staff at organizations involved in the management of adults or children with sepsis.
Recommendations will be published as WHO guidelines, and will include tools to support implementation.
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