In recent years, we have made considerable progress in the field of sepsis. With each
advance, we have needed to reexamine what we understand by the term" sepsis." This
reevaluation has led to the problems associated with our definitions of sepsis at the present
time.It has become harder, as our knowledge has increased, to identify the boundaries
between infection and sepsis. Sepsis and infection are frequently used as independent
terms, but this terminology oversimplifies an extremely complex relationship. An infection is …