1. Introduction

   • L. Gattinoni

   EditorialNotes Pages: S243 - S243

2. The Italian SEPSIS study: Preliminary results on the incidence and evolution of SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock

   • I. Salvo
   • W. de Cian
   • The SEPSIS Study Group

   Original Pages: S244 - S249

3. Is sepsis a mediator-inhibitor mismatch?

   • M. Lamy
   • G. Deby-Dupont

   Original Pages: S250 - S257

4. Time course of cytokine levels in sepsis

   • L. G. Thijs
   • C. E. Hack

   Original Pages: S258 - S263

5. Coagulation inhibitor substitution during sepsis

   • F. Fourrier
   • M. Jourdain
   • C. Chopin

   Original Pages: S264 - S268

6. New therapeutic approaches in sepsis: A critical review

   • L. A. Eidelman
   • R. Pizov
   • C. L. Sprung

   Original Pages: S269 - S272