Sepsis and septic shock study in pediatric critical care: An overview of recent Chinese literature

Issue title: Sepsis and Septic Shock: Global Perspectives

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sun, Bo | Xu, Feng | Yu, Wenliang

Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China | Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China | Department of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care, Nanjing Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu, P.R. China

Note: [] Correspondence: Bo Sun, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, 399 Wanyuan Road, Shanghai 201102, P.R. China. Tel.: +86 21 64931226; Fax: +86 21 64047017; E-mail: bsun@shmu.edu.cn

Abstract: Sepsis and septic shock is one of the major death causes in Chinese pediatric critical care. This review has brought to this issue with very recent advances in clinical investigation of this aspect published in Chinese literature. In this report, management of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock as well as other complications were carried out in both multicenter or single center studies, mostly according to international definitions and recommendations for sepsis and septic shock. The resources of these reports, though not complete, represent the different regions with leading pediatric critical care centers, well reflecting progression of pediatric critical care in both newly industrialized and emerging regions of China.

Keywords: Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, pediatric intensive care unit, respiratory failure, sepsis, septic shock, systemic inflammatory response syndrome

DOI: 10.3233/JPI-2009-0156

Journal: Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 147-152, 2009