The third session of the 2nd World Sepsis Congress ‘The Different Faces and Challenges of Sepsis’ is now available to view on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes link).
It is chaired by Nathan Nielsen from the US and features the following presentations and speakers:

• Sepsis and Recovery in the Elderly – Hannah Wunsch

• Sepsis in Meningitis – Diederik van de Beek

• Sepsis in Ebola Virus Disease – Shevin Jacob

• Sepsis in Seasonal, Avian, and Swine Flu – Robert Fowler

• Sepsis in Malaria and Dengue Fever – Pravin Amin

• Sepsis in Cancer Patients – Imrana Malik

Sessions are released weekly on Thursdays. The next session is ‘Epidemiology of Sepsis’ on October 11th, 2018. Please head over to the 2nd WSC website for the full release schedule.

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The survey to give feedback on the 2nd WSC will close on Sunday, October 7th. If you haven’t made your voice heard yet, please participate in this 3-min survey to tell us what you liked about the 2nd WSC and what could be improved. Thanks!

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The 2nd WSC is brought to you free of charge by the Global Sepsis Alliance, fostering our aspiration to bring knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world. If you enjoyed it, please consider making a donation.

You are hereby invited to our next World Sepsis Day Supporter Meeting, which takes place on October 23rd at ESICM LIVES 2018 in Paris, France.

Main topics will be a summary of this year’s GSA activities, an outlook for 2019, as well as a look back on the 7th World Sepsis Day and the 2nd World Sepsis Congress, our free online congress bringing knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world.

• Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

• 12:15 to 14:15 (lunch break of ESICM)

• Meeting Room: BM2

• Snacks will be provided

• Download preliminary agenda (PDF)

Participation is free of charge and open to everyone. If you want to attend, please sign up here.

The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) is an association of individual persons. Founded in March 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland, ESICM is a non-profit making international association. ESICM supports and promotes the advancement of knowledge in intensive care medicine, in particular the promotion of the highest standards of multidisciplinary care of critically ill patients and their families through education, research, and professional development.

The second session of the 2nd World Sepsis Congress ‘Antimicrobial Therapy and Source Control I’ is now available to recap on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes link).
It is chaired by Alison Fox-Robichaud from Canada and features the following presentations and speakers:

• How to Improve Outcome in Staphylococcal Sepsis – Mathias Pletz

• Do Inhaled Antimicrobials Play a Role? – Jean Chastre

• Novel Antibiotics to Overcome Resistance – Tobias Welte

• Finding the Source of Sepsis – Charles Gomersall

• Surgical Source Control – John Marshall

• Choosing the Right Antimicrobials in Resource-Limited Settings – Arjen Dondorp

Sessions are released weekly on Thursdays. The next session is ‘The Different Faces and Challenges of Sepsis’ on October 4th, 2018. Please head over to the 2nd WSC website for the full release schedule.

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We want to make World Sepsis Congress better from year to year, and your feedback helps us tremendously to do that. If you haven’t yet, please participate in this 3-min survey to tell us what you liked about the 2nd WSC and what could be improved. Thanks!

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The 2nd WSC is brought to you free of charge by the Global Sepsis Alliance, fostering our aspiration to bring knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world. If you enjoyed it, please consider making a donation.

Hermann Gröhe, German Minister of Health from 2013 to 2018 and Member of the German Bundestag was honored with the GSA Award in category I for his contribution to getting the World Health Assembly to adopt the WHO Resolution on Sepsis.

Without his leadership and initiative in uniting the German-speaking European countries (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland) the WHO Resolution on Sepsis, which is widely accepted as a quantum leap in the global fight against sepsis, would have been massively delayed at least.

Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Chair of the Global Sepsis Alliance and member of the GSA Awards Jury presented the Global Sepsis Award to Hermann Gröhe at the opening session of the 20th Capital Congress of DGAI in Berlin on September 20th, 2018.

“The adoption of the resolution ‘Improving the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Clinical Management of Sepsis’ in 2017 by the representatives of the 194 member states of the World Health Assembly is considered a quantum leap in the fight against sepsis.”

— Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Chair Global Sepsis Alliance

“Over the past 1.5 years, many countries on every continent have used the resolution to adopt national strategies for better prevention and early detection of sepsis. Those are great news for millions of people!”

— Hermann Gröhe, Former German Minister of Health and Member of the German Bundestag

Prior awardees in category I, Governments and Healthcare Authorities, were UK Secretary of Health Jeremy Hunt, the Turkish Minister of Health Mehmet Müezzinoğlu, and German Chancellery Minister Helge Braun. Awardees of the Global Sepsis Award are chosen by the GSA Award Jury, a panel of internationally recognized experts in patient safety and sepsis management. The GSA Awards are sponsored by the Erin Kay Flatley Memorial Foundation.

The opening session of the 2nd World Sepsis Congress, ‘Sepsis - Still a Global Health Threat’ is now available on demand on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes link). It is chaired by Simon Finfer from Australia and features the following presentations and speakers:

• Opening Remarks – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

• The Approach of G7 / G20 Member States to Improve Global Health – Helge Braun, Chancellery Minister, Germany

• Role and Perspective of the European Union – Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Brussels

• Sepsis and the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization

• Sepsis and AMR – Need for a Joint Global Strategy – Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust, UK

• Challenges and Opportunities to Fight Sepsis in Africa – Mamoun Homeida, Minister of Health Khartoum, Sudan

• The New York State Approach to Fight Sepsis – Marcus Friedrich, Chief Medical Officer, New York State Department of Health, US

• Opportunities and Challenges of the WHO Resolution – Konrad Reinhart, Chair Global Sepsis Alliance, Germany

Sessions are released weekly on Thursdays. The next session is ‘Antimicrobial Therapy and Source Control I’, on September 27th, 2018.

We strive to make World Sepsis Congress better from year to year. To help us improve it, we would very much like to hear your feedback for the 2nd World Sepsis Congress. Please participate in this 3-min survey.

The 2nd WSC is brought to you free of charge by the Global Sepsis Alliance, fostering our aspiration to bring knowledge about sepsis to all parts of the world. If you enjoyed it, please consider making a donation.

Despite a recent resolution by the WHO and increasing worldwide recognition that sepsis poses a major global health threat, our knowledge of what sepsis surveillance, treatment, quality improvement (QI), and reporting practices look like across the world is surprisingly limited and fragmented. As a community of stakeholders from policy makers to healthcare providers, we need to know more about how these programs and practices vary between regions, between patient populations, and between healthcare settings.

The GSA is conducting a global survey, which will operate through 2 arms.
The first arm is a targeted survey that will be distributed to the head of every national government health agency in the UN member states. The second arm is a publicly available survey that is targeted to various healthcare providers, health administrators, and government health officials across the world. We aim for participation that includes every UN member state, from diverse types of healthcare providers, and from diverse patient populations.

The survey begins by clarifying respondents’ roles to ask only the questions that are relevant to them. The following 15-20 questions should take about 7-9 minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous, and no data will ever be released in a manner that would allow any specific healthcare institution to be singled out.

Purpose of the Survey

To characterize the current practices related to sepsis surveillance, treatment, quality improvement, and reporting worldwide.

Date Protection and Privacy

All data is s collected through REDCap, a fully encrypted and secure data abstraction platform that has become a global industry standard to maintain both security and privacy for protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) in clinical trials and human subjects research.

This survey does not ask any questions that constitute PHI. The risk of any responses being able to identify individuals or institutions is extremely minimal. Nevertheless, all data is fully encrypted and housed in a secure location. One only individual will directly access raw data for analysis, and all data reports will always presented in aggregate only.

Share the Survey

Please share the survey with your colleagues and other interested parties: www.worldsepsisday.org/survey

Yesterday, September 13th, was World Sepsis Day. Countless events all over the world raised awareness for sepsis, the most preventable cause of death worldwide. Thank you so much for participating.

Like in the previous years, we will summarize all events on the 2018 WSD Event Poster - submission is now open.

Please note that you can only upload one picture per event, so make sure to choose the best/the most representative one.

Since the poster will eventually be printed, we require a certain picture quality. If the form gives you an error message that the picture is too small, please make sure you get the original file off the camera or smartphone, without compressing it. Please don’t submit pictures you have received through WhatsApp, as it compresses pictures beyond recognition.

Please use only the provided form to submit your events - we can’t use pictures that are emailed to us or sent through social media.

We plan to complete the poster by November, and we will make it available for download, as well as sent out printed copies, which you will be able to ‘order’ free of charge as soon as the poster is completed.

Please point your colleagues and friends to our website to submit their events, especially if you know that they did an event for World Sepsis Day.

Today is World Sepsis Day - countless events in all parts of the world raise awareness for sepsis today.
There are events for medical professionals, sport activities, photo exhibitions, pink picnics, gala events, dinners, public events such as open houses in hospitals and healthcare facilities, and of course online events and campaigns on social media.

We would like to encourage you to join local WSD Events or participate in the global awareness campaigns taking place online:

Video: “What Is Sepsis? (sepsis explained in 3 minutes)”

Learn what sepsis is, and how to identify and diagnose it in this 3-min video - please share it with your loved ones, family, close friends, and colleagues.

Besides English, this video is also available in Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, and German (YouTube links). 

NEW WSD Infographics

On Tuesday, we launched the new WSD Infographics, which you can download here.
They range from symptoms, sources, prevention, risk groups, to physiology, post-sepsis symptoms, and much more. You can use them on social media or anywhere else on the internet, or even print them.

Show Your Support on Social Media

You can use the following posts on social media to help raise awareness for sepsis. All of them are 280 characters or less and work best with a WSD Infographic:

• #Sepsis is not only a medical emergency, but also a global health crisis, affecting up to 30 000 000 people a year - September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay. Join us in raising awareness for sepsis - awareness saves lives! #stopsepsis #savelives #wsd18

• September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay! Sepsis is the final common pathway to death from most infectious diseases worldwide - these are the most common #sources of #sepsis.

• September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay! While everybody can get #sepsis, certain people are at an even higher risk. Join us in raising awareness for sepsis - awareness saves lives! #stopsepsis #savelives #wsd18

• September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay! #Sepsis is a medical emergency and must be treated immediately - if you see 2 or more symptoms, act immediately. #stopsepsis #savelives #wsd18

• September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay! #Sepsis is the most preventable cause of death worldwide. It can be prevented by vaccination, sanitation, and AWARENESS. Everything depends on you! Join us and #stopsepsis #savelives #wsd18

• September 13th is #WorldSepsisDay! Sepsis does not end at hospital discharge - many #sepsis survivors face lifelong consequences. Join us to raise awareness! #stopsepsis #savelives #wsd18

The official hashtags for World Sepsis Day are: #WorldSepsisDay, #sepsis,#stopsepsis, #savelives, and #wsd18.

2018 WSD Event Poster

After World Sepsis Day, the 2018 WSD Event Poster will summarize all events that took place on WSD. For that, make sure to take some pictures.

On September 14th, we will have a form available here (URL to bookmark: https://www.world-sepsis-day.org/wsdposter) where you can upload your pictures to be featured on the poster.

Thank you so much for your contribution to giving sepsis the recognition it deserves.

For any questions, please feel free to get in touch. Due to sheer volume, please allow us a couple of days to respond.