Pediatric anesthesia & critical care

Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026

Intensive Care MedPublished Clinical practice guideline

Methodological detailsGRADE approach, systematic review, evidence-to-decision framework
  • GRADE approach
  • Systematic review
  • Evidence-to-decision framework

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. strong

    Five strong recommendations

  2. conditional

    24 conditional recommendations

  3. good practice statement

    Ten good practice statements

  4. 22 Population, Intervention, Control, and Outcomes (PICO) questions without recommendation; for seven of these, "in our practice" statements provided

  5. vs 2020 guidelines: 20 new, 13 updated, six reviewed but unchanged, 22 carried forward; only three based on high or moderate certainty of evidence

Original publication

Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026. Intensive Care Med. Published 23 March 2026. doi:10.1007/s00134-026-08360-2

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