Cesar M. Limjoco, MD, CDI physician advisor consultant, has more than 25 years' experience assisting hospitals with the improvement of clinical documentation. He has delivered CDI services to critical access hospitals, small community hospitals, regional referral centers, large academic medical centers, and multi-facility health systems, all while building a solid reputation of integrity and

Background. The new Surviving Sepsis Guidelines were released in January 2017 as an update to the 2012 guidelines. The 2012 sepsis criteria maintained the model of "early goal-directed therapy" (EGDT) as a guiding principle which became the standard of care after the groundbreaking Emmanuel Rivers' study in 2001 (Rivers 2001). Sepsis Update 2017 A Year in Review Revised SSC Guidelines A Beacon of Light James D. Leo, MD, FACP, FCCP Medical Director of Best Practice and Clinical Outcomes Chair, Sepsis Best Practice Team MemorialCare Health System April 10, 2017 Sepsis: What Happened in 2016? •JAMA, Feb. 23, 2016: Sepsis-3, New criteria for defining sepsis Lactic acidosis is not a specific marker for any disease. Rather it is a marker for severity of illness. However, In patients with jejunal-ileal bypass or other types of "short bowel syndrome," D We are pleased to present the 2016 edition of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's practice guidelines in this issue of our journals [1, 2].We are also pleased to publish a brief explanatory article intended to facilitate the accurate implementation of the guidelines [3, 4].These publications fulfill—yet do not explain—the role that journals, their reviewers, and their editors play in Moved Permanently. The document has moved here. Objective To provide an update to "Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012". DesignA consensus committee of 55 international experts representing The core conception of sepsis—that it is a dysregulated state—is a powerful and durable idea that has ins