Dr. Michael O'Dwyer:

In 2014 when our national clinical guidelines were produced, it was not done solely in Ireland. We collaborated closely with international colleagues and the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign, specifically. It provides guidelines for the treatment of sepsis and we adopted most of its recommendations. That is what is in the national clinical guidelines which follow the international best evidence. Those guidelines are reviewed every two to three years. Sometimes supplementary material is added, for example, around Covid-19, which brought with it a pandemic of sepsis. There were different suggestions about how to treat Covid-related sepsis. We tried to get those guidelines out to the hospitals at the time. Our guidelines are guided by international best practice.