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.

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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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2026-03-23
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https://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000003927
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Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026

Lauren R. Sorce, Mark Hall, Fran Balamuth, Étienne Javouhey et al.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026

Lauren R. Sorce, Mark Hall, Fran Balamuth, Étienne Javouhey, S. Ranjit, Brenda Morrow, Tricia B. Swan, Mark Nunnally, Luc Morin, Martin C. J. Kneyber, Joseph Charles Manning, Serena Kelly, Benson Hsu, Oliver Karam, Christopher L. Carroll, Graeme MacLaren, Sandra Pong, Anna Sick-Samuels, Jerry J. Zimmerman, Joris Lemson, Cláudio Flauzino de Oliveira, Heidi R. Flori, Saul N. Faust, Halden F. Scott, Margaret M. Parker, Enitan D. Carrol, Karolijn Dulfer, Koen F. M. Joosten, Hans-Joerg Lang, Simon Oczkowski, Mark J. Peters, Erin F. Carlton, Daniela Correia Cavalcante Souza, K. Burns, Fitzgerald, Joshua Wolf, SM Tibby, Corinne Buysse, Arun Bansal, 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
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Abstract

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.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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)
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