Sepsis-3-the use of sepsis in children:we still have a lot of work to do / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Since the definition of sepsis has been first proposed in 1991, the main content of the definition has been developed by infection + systemic inflammatory response syndrome as infection + organ dysfunction,and organ dysfunction is indicated by an increase in sequential organ failure assessment(SOFA) score.These are components of Sepsis-3 which was published in 2016.In Sepsis-3,the SOFA score in the identification and diagnosis of sepsis plays an important role,but Sepsis-3 was mainly used in adults,how to adjust it to children,some questions and details were proposed in this article.