Abstract
Sepsis is a complex syndrome triggered by a systemic inflammatory response to an infection. It is characterized by hemodynamic, cellular and metabolic events such as: fever or hypothermia, altered heart rate, leukocytosis or leukopenia, lactic acidosis and loss of vascular tonus (vasoplegia) leading to hypotension and hypoperfusion of vital organs (Dellinger et al., 2013; Duan et al., 201…