Yatin Mehta

TL;DR: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations on the recognition and management of sepsis and its complications as discussed by the authors, which are either strong or weak, or in the form of best practice statements.

TL;DR: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations on the recognition and management of sepsis and its complications as mentioned in this paper, which are either strong or weak, or in the form of best practice statements.

TL;DR: Device-associated infections, particularly ventilator-associated pneumonia, central venous catheterrelated bloodstream infections, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections pose the greatest threat to patient safety in the ICU, according to the initial findings of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study.

TL;DR: During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN; formerly the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system [NNIS]) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infections, prospective data was gathered from 313,008 patients hospitalized in the consortium's ICUs for an aggregate of 2,194,897 ICU bed-days.

TL;DR: In a worldwide sample of patients admitted to ICUs in September 2017, the prevalence of suspected or proven infection was high, with a substantial risk of in-hospital mortality, and ICU-acquired infection was independently associated with higher risk of mortality.