Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về y học đề tài: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: raising awareness to reduce mortality. | Available online http content 7 1 1 Editorial The Surviving Sepsis Campaign raising awareness to reduce mortality Elizabeth Slade1 Pritpal S Tamber2 and Jean-Louis Vincent3 Assistant editor Critical Care London UK 2Managing editor Critical Care London UK 3Editor-in-chief Critical Care and Head Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Brussels Belgium Correspondence Critical Care editorial office editorial@ Published online 8 January 2003 Critical Care 2003 7 1-2 DOI cc1876 This article is online at http content 7 1 1 2003 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Sepsis affects 18 million people worldwide every year and on average each case costs more than US 22 000 to treat. Despite this there is no consensus on the clinical definition of sepsis and successful diagnosis and treatment is difficult. The Barcelona Declaration issued by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in October 2002 outlines a six-point plan to reduce the relative mortality of sepsis by 25 over the next 5 years. The Campaign organizers are currently producing evidence-based guidelines on source control and management of sepsis as well as a policy document on how sepsis is managed around the world. Keywords diagnosis health education practice guidelines sepsis At the annual congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine ESICM in October 2002 the newly formed Surviving Sepsis Campaign issued their Barcelona Declaration - a call for action against sepsis which is a leading cause of death in the intensive care unit ICU . Surviving Sepsis aims to harness the support of governments health agencies the public and other health care professionals to decrease the relative mortality of sepsis by 25 over the next 5 years. The idea for the Campaign is based on the previous success of the so-called Milan Declaration made at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of Obesity which helped raise awareness of the .
