Management of severe sepsis in patients admitted to Asian intensive care units: prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the compliance of Asian intensive care units and hospitals to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's resuscitation and management bundles. Secondary objectives were to evaluate the impact of compliance on mortality and the organisational characteristics of hospitals that were associated with higher compliance.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

150 intensive care units in 16 Asian countries.

Participants

1285 adult patients with severe sepsis admitted to these intensive care units in July 2009. The organisational characteristics of participating centres, the patients' baseline characteristics, the achievement of targets within the resuscitation and management bundles, and outcome data were recorded.

Main outcome measure

Compliance wit

SUBMITTER: Phua J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3113333 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature