The surviving sepsis campaign.

Crit Care Resuscitation ISSN: 1441-2772 4 September 2006 8 3 181-182 © C r i t C a r e R es u s c i t a t i on 20 06 www.jficm.anzca.edu.au/aaccm/journal/publications.htm Editorials 25% over 5 years. The project had its roots in an initiative of develop a set of evidence-based guidelines for th ment of severe sepsis and septic shock. These were published in 2001 and represent a synth best available evidence on the management of s were developed using an evidence-based metho The Surviving Sepsis Campaign is a project initiated by the International Sepsis Forum (ISF), the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which aims to reduce the mortality of sepsis by