Sepsis is a clinical syndrome of systemic inflammation in response to an infection.1 Sepsis is defined by the presence of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) accompanied by a body temperature >38°C, heart rate >90 min 1 or hyperventilation.1 Sepsis is seen in different stages of severity.1 If sepsis is associated with organ dysfunction, it is called severe sepsis.1 If there is also sepsis-induced hypotension, despite resuscitation, it is called septic shock.1 Sepsis develops when the host fails to contain an infection, which results in microthrombi formation, capillary obstruction, microcirculatory alterations, tissue edema and neutrophil recruitment.2 Eventually, this leads to multiple organ failure, which finally results in death.2
