Prevalence, treatment, and outcomes of sepsis during rapid response team calls: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Sepsis is a trigger for a quarter of RRT calls, associated with substantial resource use and mortality in one eighth of patients. These findings support the need for standardised recognition protocols, escalation guidelines and prospective trials to optimise outcomes.
Authors
- Kundan Reddy Saripalli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5377-7986)
- Sophia Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6914-3583)
- Wei Ling Chua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-2728)
- Lionel Soh
- Ashwin Subramaniam
- Deb Sharp
- Joshua Junjie Aw
- Ryan Ruiyang Ling
- Natalie Robertson
- Daryl Jones
Institutions
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Singapore General Hospital (SG)
- College of Intensive Care Medicine (AU)
- Epworth Hospital (AU)
- Frankston Hospital (AU)
- Changi General Hospital (SG)
- Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (SG)
- Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (AU)
- Warrington Hospital (GB)
- Monash Health (AU)
- Duke-NUS Medical School (SG)
- Dandenong Hospital (AU)
- National University Hospital (SG)
- National University Health System (SG)
- Melbourne Health (AU)
- Alfred Health (AU)
- Austin Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Critical Care and Resuscitation
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccrj.2026.100172
- Primary Topic
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00