Shock, Septic - Clinicians have used the terms sepsis and septic shock without a common definition. In August 1991, during a consensus conference, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine developed a series of definitions to clarify the terminology used in describing the hemodynamic impairment seen with severe infections. They noted that the physiologic ...

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