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Group members of the ‘Sepsis in Resource-limited Settings’—guidelines group and the ‘Mahidol–Oxford Research Unit’ (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand: (Heads) Arjen D. Dondorp (Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Martin W. Dünser (Department of Critical Care, University College of London Hospital, London, UK), and Marcus J. Schultz (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand).
Other group members: Neill K.J. Adhikari (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada), Derek Angus (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA), Luciano Azevedo (Hospital Sirio-Libanes, Saõ Paulo, Brazil), Janet V. Diaz (Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Arthur Kwizera (Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda), Tim Baker (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden), Ted Barnett (The Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana), Chris Farmer (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI), Rashan Haniffa (Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand), Shevin T. Jacob (University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Randeep Jawa (Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY, USA), Niranjan Kissoon (British Columbia Children’s Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Rakesh Lodha (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India), Ganbold Lundeg (Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), Ignacio Martin Loeches (St. James's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland), David Misango (Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya), Mervyn Mer (Johannesburg Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Sanjib Mohanty (Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India), Srinivas Murthy (BC Children’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), Ndidiamaka Musa (Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Washington, WA), Jane Nakibuuka (Mulago National referral and university teaching hospital, Kampala, Uganda), Mai Nguyen Thi Hoang (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, District 5, Vietnam), Binh Nguyen Thien (Trung Vuong Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam), Alfred Papali (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA), Rajyabardhan Pattnaik (Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India),Jason Phua (National University Hospital, Singapore), Luigi Pisani (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy), Jacobus Preller (Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK), Pedro Povoa (Nova Medical School, CEDOC, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal and Hospital de São Francisco Xavier, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal), Suchitra Ranjit (Appolo’s Hospitals, Chennai, India), Elisabeth D. Riviello (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA), Marc Romain (Hadassah–Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel), Ary Serpa-Neto (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil), Jonarthan Thevanayagam (Mzuzu Central Hospital, Mzuzu, Malawi), and Louise Thwaites (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK).
Group members of the subgroup ‘Infrastructure and Organization of ICUs in Resource-limited settings’: (Heads) Alfred Papali (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA), Marcus J. Schultz (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand), and Martin W. Dünser (Department of Critical Care, University College of London Hospital, London, UK).
Other subgroup members: Neill J. Adhikari (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto Canada), Janet V. Diaz (Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Arjen M. Dondorp (Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand), Shevin T. Jacob (University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Jason Phua (National University Hospital, Singapore), and Marc Romain (Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel).
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Papali, A., Schultz, M.J., Dünser, M.W. et al. Recommendations on infrastructure and organization of adult ICUs in resource-limited settings. Intensive Care Med 44, 1133–1137 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4972-0
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