The Angus Method died in Saudi Arabia

A pile of wrong assumptions about sepsis just wrecked.

I have admired Saudi intensive care since I read a Saudi research paper for the first time, many, many years ago. Unfortunately, Saudis were betrayed by the Angus Method.

Bad enough? No, it’s much worse.

A pile of wrong assumptions about sepsis just wrecked.

Of course, the Dogtensivist Society will keep the status quo.

They must keep the spice flowing. They must keep you ignorant.

In this post:

• The Angus Method: prognosis is diagnosis

  • qSOFA, Sepsis-3, and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines are misconceptions built over the Angus Method. They all should be abandoned.

• The SCREEN study

  • The embarrassing visual abstract on JAMA’s web page.

  • A post-hoc change in outcome measure?

  • Irrelevant Yet Significant

• Why did early sepsis detection fail? My readers knew it beforehand.

• Intellectual colonization

  • Saudis would better stop revering American pundits.