Sections
General | Prescribing | Community-Acquired Infections | Nosocomial Infections | Resistant Bacteria | Special Groups | Specific Drugs | Bacteria | Fungi | Viruses | Protozoa | Miscellaneous
General
International Guidelines
National Guidelines
Future Research
- DeMerle. Sepsis Subclasses: A Framework for Development and Interpretation. Crit Care Med 2021;49(5):748-759
- Nunnally. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: research priorities for the administration, epidemiology, scoring and identification of sepsis. Intensive Care Med Exp 2021;9(1):34
- Deutschman. The surviving sepsis campaign: basic/translational science research priorities. Intensive Care Med Exp 2020;8(1):31
Resource Limited Settings
Sepsis Definition
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA 2016;315(8):801-810
- 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference. Crit Care Med 2003;31(4):1250-1256
- Bone. Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. The ACCP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committee. American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine. Chest 1992; 101:1644–1655
Paediatric Sepsis Definition
- Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force: International consensus criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock. JAMA 2024;331:665–674
- Goldstein. International Consensus Conference on Pediatric Sepsis: International pediatric sepsis consensus conference: Definitions for sepsis and organ dysfunction in pediatrics. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2005;6:2–8
Prescribing
Stewardship
- Cortegiani. Rationale and clinical application of antimicrobial stewardship principles in the intensive care unit: a multidisciplinary statement. J Anesth Analg Crit Care 2023;3:11
- Scheutz. Procalcitonin (PCT)-guided antibiotic stewardship: an international experts consensus on optimized clinical use. Clin Chem Lab Med 2019;57(9):1308-1318
- Optimization of the treatment with beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients—guidelines from the French Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Société Française de Pharmacologie et Thérapeutique—SFPT) and the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Société Française d’Anesthésie et Réanimation—SFAR). Critical Care 2019;23:104
Fungi
General
Diagnosis
- Mercier. Defining Galactomannan Positivity in the Updated EORTC/MSGERC Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Diseases. Clin Infect Dis 2021;72(S2):S89–S94
- White. Aspergillus Polymerase Chain Reaction—An Update on Technical Recommendations, Clinical Applications, and Justification for Inclusion in the Second Revision of the EORTC/MSGERC Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease. Clin Infect Dis 2021;72(S2):S95–S101
- Lamoth. Assessment of the Role of 1,3-β-d-Glucan Testing for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections in Adults. Clin Infect Dis 2021;72(S2):S102–S108
Source Control
General Surgery
Nosocomial Infections
EVD Infections
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
CAUTI
Wound Infection
Special Groups
Immunocompromised Patients
- Pei. Expert consensus on the monitoring and treatment of sepsis-induced immunosuppression. Military Med Res 2022;9:74
- Rodrigues. Indian Antimicrobial Prescription Guidelines in Critically Ill Immunocompromised Patients. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2019;23(Suppl 1):S64-96
- Management of sepsis in neutropenic cancer patients: 2018 guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Working Party (AGIHO) and Intensive Care Working Party (iCHOP) of the German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO). Ann Hematol 2019;epublished February 22nd
Resistant Bacteria
Carbapenem Resistance
- Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli. J Microbiol Immunol Infect 2023;epublished February 18th
- Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidance on the Treatment of Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase Producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Difficult-to-Treat Resistance (DTR-P. aeruginosa). Clin Infect Dis 2021;72(7):1109–1116
Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria
Specific Drugs
Bacteria
Gram Positive
Streptococci
Staphlococci
Gram Negative
Klebsiella
Pseudomonas
Fungi
Protozoa
Malaria
Strongyloides
Miscellaneous
Diagnosis
- Candel. The role of rapid multiplex molecular syndromic panels in the clinical management of infections in critically ill patients: an experts-opinion document. Crit Care 2024;28:440
- Hanson. Molecular Testing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Clinical and Diagnostic Recommendations From the IDSA’s Diagnostics Committee. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2020;epublished May 5th
Haemoadsorption
- Mehta. Systematic review with expert consensus on use of extracorporeal hemoadsorption in septic shock: An Indian perspective. World J Crit Care Med 2024;13(1):89026
- Mitznerl. Adjunctive Hemoadsorption Therapy with CytoSorb in Patients with Septic/Vasoplegic Shock: A Best Practice Consensus Statement. J Clin Med 2023;12(23):7199
Last updated June 26th, 2025