Division SYS-CSEP: Clinical sepsis in adults and children

Patient has at least one of the following

• clinical signs or symptoms with no other recognised cause

• fever (> 38 °C)

• hypotension (systolic pressure < 90 mm/Hg)

• or oliguria (20 cm³(ml)/hr)

And blood culture not done or no organisms or antigen detected in blood

And no apparent infection at another site

And physician institutes treatment for sepsis