Guidelines
New evidence-based guidelines
for the management of sepsis, the
surviving sepsis Campaign guidelines,
outline recommendations for
the medical treatment of sepsis. These update the
prior guidelines9 published in 2008 and represent
the work of a committee of 68 international experts
representing 30 international organizations. The
guidelines use the Grades of Recommendation,
Assessment, development, and Evaluation (GRAdE)
system to establish the quality of evidence from high
(A) to very low (d) and to determine the strength
of recommendations as strong (1) or weak (2).10
Groups were formed to work on individual guideline
recommendations, and several working meetings
were held along with teleconferences and electronics-
based committee discussions. This article’s
authors served on the guideline revision task force
as nursing representatives.