Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis

RC Bone, RA Balk, FB Cerra, RP Dellinger, AM Fein… - Chest, 1992 - Elsevier
An American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus
Conference was held in Northbrook in August 1991 with the goal of agreeing on a set of
definitions that could be applied to patients with sepsis and its sequelae. New definitions
were offered for some terms, while others were discarded. Broad definitions of sepsis and
the systemic inflammatory response syndrome were proposed, along with detailed
physiologic parameters by which a patient may be categorized. Definitions for severe sepsis …