Inclusion criteria | |
Age ≥ 18 years | |
Informed consent | |
Sepsis or septic shock (with an onset ≤ 24 h) | |
Exclusion criteria | |
Age < 18 years | |
Refusal to give consent | |
Patient will probably be discharged from the ICU/IMC within the first 72 h following inclusion | |
Palliative treatment intent | |
Clinician is not committed to aggressive treatment | |
Death is deemed imminent and inevitable | |
Patients who had previously been included but are readmitted to the ICU/IMC during the same hospitalization will not be included a second time. |