Critical care clinicians agree that sepsis and septic shock are life-threatening medical emergencies that demand urgent interventions. But does the clock dictate how fast action needs to be taken?
For the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), the answer is a resounding yes. In a revision of its earlier guidelines, the SSC now states the clinical response should be initiated no later than one hour from identification of sepsis.
The SSC’s new “Hour-1 Sepsis Bundle,”