Members of the Writing Committee: M. M. Levy: Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; S. Finfer: The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; F. Machado: Intensive Care Sector at the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care at Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America Sepsis Institute; L. Kaplan: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Emergency Surgery Philadelphia, PA, USA; J. Kesecioglu: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; A. Rhodes: Adult Critical Care, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St George’s University of London, UK; R. Daniels: Critical Care Department, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK; N. Kissoon: Acute and Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; E. Nsutebu: Infectious Diseases Division, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE; L. A. Gorordo: Adults Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Juárez de México, México City, México; I. Malik: Department of Critical Care, University of Texas, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; A. Alhawsawi: Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Health Institutions (CBAHI), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; M. Cecconi: Humanitas clinical and research center—IRCCS, Rozzano (Milano) Italy, Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy; E. Giamarellos: 4th Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Greece; G. Martin: Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia USA; L. Schlapbach: Child Health Research Centre, The University of Quensland, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children's Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; K. Reinhart: Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
M. M. Levy and S. Finfer contributed equally to the writing of this article.