Table 1.
PubMed search strategy.
| Number | Search terms |
| #1 | Sepsis[MeSH] |
| #2 | Pyaemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #3 | Pyemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #4 | Pyohemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #5 | Blood poisoning[Title/Abstract] |
| #6 | Poisoning, blood[Title/Abstract] |
| #7 | Septicemia[Title/Abstract] |
| #8 | Severe sepsis[Title/Abstract] |
| #9 | Blood poisonings[Title/Abstract] |
| #10 | Poisonings, blood[Title/Abstract] |
| #11 | Pyaemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #12 | Pyemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #13 | Pyohemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #14 | Sepsis, severe[Title/Abstract] |
| #15 | Septicemias[Title/Abstract] |
| #16 | OR/1 to 15 |
| #17 | Shenfu injection[Title/Abstract] |
| #18 | Randomized controlled trials as topic[MeSH] |
| #19 | Clinical trials, randomized[Title/Abstract] |
| #20 | Controlled clinical trials, randomized[Title/Abstract] |
| #21 | Trials, randomized clinical[Title/Abstract] |
| #22 | Random∗[Title/Abstract] |
| #23 | OR/18 to 22 |
| #24 | #16 and #17 and #23 |