Erratum to: Intensive Care Med DOI 10.1007/s00134-012-2468-5

The recommendation to use artesunate by suppositories (8–16 mg/kg at 0 and 12 h and then daily) if injectable artesunate is unavailable should not have been included in Table 8. The corrected table is given here.

Table 8 Management of sepsis due to specific causes