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Pediatric sepsis and septic shock management in resource-limited settings

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Group members of the Pediatric Considerations Subgroup

(Heads) Ndidiamaka Musa (Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, USA), Srinivas Murthy (BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada), Niranjan Kissoon (BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada). Other members, in alphabetic order: Rakesh Lodha (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India), Suchitra Ranjit (Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India).

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Ndidiamaka Musa

  2. Department of Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Srinivas Murthy & Niranjan Kissoon

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For the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Global Intensive Care Working Group and the Mahidol–Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Members of the Sepsis in Resource-Limited Settings—Expert Consensus Recommendations Group are listed in the online supplement.

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Musa, N., Murthy, S. & Kissoon, N. Pediatric sepsis and septic shock management in resource-limited settings. Intensive Care Med 42, 2037–2039 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4382-8

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