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Acta Médica Peruana

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NEIRA-SANCHEZ, Elsa R  and  MALAGA, Germán. Sepsis-3 new definitions, is it time to quit SIRS?. Acta méd. Peru [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.3, pp.217-222. ISSN 1728-5917.

More than 20 years ago, the first definition of sepsis based on the concept of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), was published, and this is the definition we have been currently using until now. Recently, the Sepsis Definitions Task Force has published a consensus statement with the updated definitions of sepsis and septic shock (sepsis-3), and introducing a new concept of sepsis as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by adysregulated host response to infection, using the SOFA scoring system (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment), and calls for abandoning the old criteria. We review the background for this new proposed definition, the definitions proposed by this new consensus, and we compare the new definitions with respect to the old ones, aiming at determining their limitations and evaluating their applicability in clinical practice

Keywords : Sepsis; Consensus; Diagnosis; Infection.

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