Table 2 Selected findings from rising related search queries

Languages represented across all reported queries

Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Languages represented for “what is sepsis” or “what is septicemia”

English, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish

Languages represented for queries related pediatric sepsis

English, Polish

Queries associated with 2012 guidelines (change from prior year)

surviving sepsis campaign 2012 (140%), surviving sepsis guidelines 2012 (140%), surviving sepsis 2012 (140%), sepsis 2012 (60%)

Queries associated with 2016 guidelines and new diagnostic criteria (change from prior year)

surviving sepsis 2016 (≥ 5000%), sepsis guidelines 2016 (≥ 5000%), jama sepsis 2016 (≥ 5000%), surviving sepsis guidelines 2016 (≥ 5000%), sepsis-3 (3600%), qsofa (3450%), qsofa sepsis (2850%), sepsis 2016 (2050%), sepsis guideline 2016 (2000%), sepsis criteria 2016 (2000%), sofa sepsis (1300%), jama sepsis (1150%), sofa (1100%), new sepsis definition (750%), sofa score sepsis (750%)

Celebrity and high-profile deaths (year in results)

Caden Beggan (2012), Hwang Soo-kwan (2012), Savita Halappanavar (2012), Park Yong-sik (2013), Andressa Urach (2014), Casey Kasem (2014), Kazuo Kawakami (2015), Muhammad Ali (2016), Patty Duke (2016), Guillermo Sanchez (2017)

Awareness events (year in results, change from prior year)

world sepsis day (2012, 650%)

Vitamin C queries in 2017 (change from prior year)

sepsis vitamin c (2150%), vitamin c for sepsis (950%), sepsis cure (100%)

“What is sepsis” per reported language in 2017 (change from 2016)

Japanese (4500%), English (300%), Korean (70%), German (70%)