In your otherwise informative article, "Sepsis: When Defense Turns Deadly" (July 2004), you made an error when you stated that the patient's urinary output should be kept above 0.05 ml/kg/hr. Ouch!! I know you meant 0.5 ml/kg/hr.

-JULIE CRUZ, RN, CCRN

Ventura, Calif.

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