Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026
Updated management guidelines were issued by a panel of international experts for the best care of children with sepsis or septic shock, acknowledging that most aspects of care continue to have relatively low quality of evidence.
Authors
- Lauren R. Sorce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5460-0664)
- Mark Hall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6310-0872)
- Fran Balamuth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3709-7160)
- Étienne Javouhey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-0758)
- S. Ranjit
- Brenda Morrow
- Tricia B. Swan
- Mark Nunnally (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-4733)
- Luc Morin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6721-4677)
- Martin C. J. Kneyber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-3376)
- Joseph Charles Manning (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6077-4169)
- Serena Kelly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-8235)
- Benson Hsu
- Oliver Karam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6606-1736)
- Christopher L. Carroll (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2054-6938)
- Graeme MacLaren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-4274)
- Sandra Pong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2963-9601)
- Anna Sick-Samuels (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9247-9340)
- Jerry J. Zimmerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-3139)
- Joris Lemson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5597-2419)
- Cláudio Flauzino de Oliveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3525-3887)
- Heidi R. Flori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-6970)
- Saul N. Faust (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-7642)
- Halden F. Scott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1412-6128)
- Margaret M. Parker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6368-5033)
- Enitan D. Carrol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-7726)
- Karolijn Dulfer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0158-6539)
- Koen F. M. Joosten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0504-2475)
- Hans-Joerg Lang
- Simon Oczkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-8948)
- Mark J. Peters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-4808)
- Erin F. Carlton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6206-0514)
- Daniela Correia Cavalcante Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3583-4120)
- K. Burns
- Fitzgerald
- Joshua Wolf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9912-3646)
- SM Tibby
- Corinne Buysse
- Arun Bansal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6212-6889)
- E Belley-Cote
- Jaime Fernández-Sarmiento
- Joe Brierley
- Kenneth Remy
- Akash Deep
- David Inwald
- Akira Nishisaki
- Daniele De Luca
- Sainath Raman
- Samiran Ray
- Simon Nadel
- Frederic V. Valla
- Kusum Menon
- Jan Hau Lee
- Matteo Di Nardo
- Michael J. Carter
- Pierre Tissieres
- Andrew C. Argent
- Reinout A. Bem
- Robert Daniels
- Luregn J. Schlapbach
- Karen L. M. Choong
- Thomas W. Conlon
- Srinivas Murthy
- R. Scott Watson
- Adrienne G. Randolph
- Niranjan Kissoon
- Nilesh Mehta
- Matthew O. Wiens
- Michael Agus
- Scott L. Weiss
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Seattle Children's Hospital (US)
- St. Michael's Hospital (CA)
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (US)
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
- Apollo Hospitals (IN)
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Children's Medical Research Institute (AU)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Thomas Jefferson University (US)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Universidad de La Sabana (CO)
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of South Dakota (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CA)
- University Hospitals of Cleveland (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- College of Central Florida (US)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Community Health Systems - Dupont Hospital (US)
- Leicester College (GB)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Yale University (US)
- Jacksonville University (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Stony Brook School (US)
- St Michael’s Hospital (IE)
- Alliance for International Medical Action (SN)
- Emma Kinderziekenhuis (NL)
- Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR)
- SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (SG)
- Hospices Civils de Lyon (FR)
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (FR)
- St Mary's Hospital (GB)
- Nemours Children's Health System (US)
- Seattle Children's Hospital (US)
- Dialyse Centrum Groningen (NL)
- Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira (BR)
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- KK Women's and Children's Hospital (SG)
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital (IT)
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- University Children's Hospital Zurich (CH)
- Latin American Sepsis Institute (BR)
- Institute of Cardiology (CO)
- Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s Hospital (NL)
- Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Evelina London Children's Healthcare (GB)
- National University Hospital (SG)
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- Hospital Sírio-Libanês (BR)
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (US)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IT)
- Doernbecher Children's Hospital (US)
- Impact (CA)
- Bicêtre Hospital (FR)
- Institute of Infection and Immunity (CA)
- St. Mary's Hospital (GB)
- Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (AU)
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Unity Health Toronto
- University College London (GB)
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (GB)
- New York University (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Published
- 2026-03-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000003927
- Primary Topic
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00