Application of Sepsis-3 Criteria to Korean Patients with Critical Illnesses

• Published in: Acute and critical care 2019, 34(1), , pp.30-37
• Main Authors: Kim, Jae Yeol, Kim, Hwan Il, Suh, Gee Young, Yoon, Sang Won, Kim, Tae-Yop, Lee, Sang Haak, Moon, Jae Young, Kwon, Jae-Young, Na, Sungwon, Ryu, Ho Geol, Park, Jisook, Koh, Younsuck
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: intensive care units; organ dysfunction; Original; Sepsis; Sepsis-3; septic shock; 마취과학
• ISSN: 2586-6052; 2586-6060
• DOI: 10.4266/acc.2018.00318

The 2016 Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) task force for Sepsis-3 devised new definitions for sepsis, sepsis with organ dysfunction and septic shock. Although Sepsis-3 was data-driven, evidence-based approach, East Asian descents comprised minor portions of the project population. We selected Korean participants from the fever and antipyretics in critically ill patients evaluation (FACE) study, a joint study between Korea and Japan. We calculated the concordance rates for sepsis diagnosis between Sepsis-2 and Sepsis-3 criteria and evaluated mortality rates of sepsis, sepsis with organ dysfunction, and septic shock by Sepsis-3 criteria using the selected data. Korean participants of the FACE study were 913 (383 with sepsis and 530 without sepsis by Sepsis-2 criteria). The concordance rate for sepsis diagnosis between Sepsis-2 and Sepsis-3 criteria was 55.4%. The intensive care unit (ICU) and 28-day mortality rates of sepsis, sepsis with organ dysfunction, and septic shock patients according to Sepsis-3 criteria were 26.2% and 31.0%, 27.5% and 32.5%, and 40.8% and 43.4%, respectively. The quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) was inferior not only to SOFA but also to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) for predicting ICU and 28-day mortality. The concordance rates for sepsis diagnosis between Sepsis-2 and Sepsis-3 criteria were low. Mortality rate for septic shock in Koreans was consistent with estimates made by the 2016 SCCM/ESICM task force. SOFA and SIRS were better than qSOFA for predicting ICU and 28-day mortality in Korean ICU patients.