Year in review in Critical Care, 2004: sepsis and multi-organ failure

James M O'Brien Jr¹ , Naeem A Ali¹ and Edward Abraham²

¹Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

²Roger Sherman Mitchell Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, Head, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Critical Care 2005, 9:409-413doi:10.1186/cc3728


Published:	23 May 2005

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During 2004, Critical Care published a broad range of original research focused on sepsis and the multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). These studies included epidemiologic surveys, assessments of the pathogenesis of the syndrome, analyses of prognostic variables in affected patients, and new therapeutic modalities.