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Join us for the 2024 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight hosted by the Global Sepsis Alliance and the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety on April 23, 2024. Throughout 9 distinctive sessions, globally renowned clinicians, researchers, experts, and thought leaders will cover the need for early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in surgical patients, data, AI, and predictive modeling in sepsis, how hypervolemia increases the mortality rate in sepsis, the role of biomarkers, detecting sepsis in ventilated patients, pediatric sepsis, including the new ‘Phoenix Criteria’, as well as personalized approaches to sepsis management.
This free online congress is designed for healthcare workers, healthcare providers and funders, healthcare authorities, policymakers, patient families, survivors, and industry professionals.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights and knowledge from the world’s leading sepsis experts. Register now and be part of this global effort to improve sepsis outcomes for patients everywhere! For more information on the program, speakers, and time zones, and to register for free, please visit wscspotlight.org.
Monday 22 April, 6:30-7pm AWST Sepsis and Kids is a free virtual event for consumers with clinicians from Perth Children’s Hospital, with a focus on the latest on paediatric sepsis, and information about the co-funded Telethon7 and CAHS post-sepsis pathway project.
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Click here to find out more information and register.
In honour of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Sunday 11th February, we’re celebrating the success of Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson and Sepsis Australia, Program Head Associate Professor Naomi Hammond.
Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson (from University of Technology Sydney) was recently awarded the 2024 Australian Critical Care Excellence in Research Award, from Australian College of Critical Care Nurses, for the article ‘Communication functions of adult patients admitted to intensive care: A multicentre, binational point prevalence study.’ People who experience sepsis are often admitted to the ICU and Amy’s study looked at the profound impact on communication for patients during their stay in the ICU. Read more about Amy’s article here.
In November last year, A/Prof Naomi Hammond was named in The Australian’s 2024 Research magazine as the nation’s leading researcher in the field of critical care. Naomi’s research collaborations into the use of intravenous fluids for critically ill patients has transformed how medical staff use fluids for resuscitation and the types of fluids that are used. Read more about Naomi’s work here.
We’re so very grateful to have remarkable women like Amy and Naomi working to improve the outcomes for people who are admitted to the ICU.
Archie lost his life on 23 August 2022, his first birthday.
Infection triggered sepsis leading to organ failure and sadly his death.
If the words “Could it be Sepsis?” were used earlier it could have saved his life.
See Archie’s story at: Tiny Hearts – Archie
Walk for Archie aims to raise awareness about sepsis so that no other family has to go through this devastating experience.
Walk for Archie is on Saturday 8 am 16th September 2023, coinciding in the same week with World Sepsis Day, and involves a 6.5 km round trip starting at Speer’s Point Amateur Sailing Club.
To participate and support this cause please see: https://www.mycause.com.au/p/320883/walk-for-archie
Your support will go to Sepsis Australia who are working to improve sepsis care in Australia by developing lifesaving clinical guidance to detect, diagnose and treat the condition;
raise community awareness of sepsis symptoms and the importance of seeking immediate medical attention; and
establish a much-needed National Centre for Sepsis, which will play a key coordinating role in fighting the condition across the country.
Together we can improve early recognition, prevention and treatment of sepsis and save thousands of lives each year.
Thank you
Support Sepsis Australia in the 2023 NIKE MELBOURNE MARATHON FESTIVAL
On 15 October 2023 join thousands of others and make a difference as you run, jog, wheel or walk your way through the city streets, passing iconic Melbourne landmarks before finishing with a lap of honor around the MCG’s hallowed turf.
Get a team together or take on the challenge solo and choose from 3km, 5km, 10km, 21.1km or 42.2km.
Whether your focus is the finish line, or the finish time, don’t miss the chance to go the extra mile and fundraise for an incredible charity.
For more information see: https://melbmara2023.grassrootz.com/sepsis-australia
The WSD 23 Global Event will be held on 12 September in Berlin.
Since the founding of the World Sepsis Day movement in 2012 and the adoption of WHA Resolution 70.7 five years later, sepsis awareness has increased significantly worldwide and the fight against sepsis has made tangible progress. The recent commitment by G7 health ministers to “advance the implementation of the WHA resolution” and “intensify efforts to strengthen early detection, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis and ensure synergies with antimicrobial stewardship programs and IPC” is another historic milestone and a quantum leap in the fight against these global health threats.
Yet few countries have made sepsis a priority for their health systems, as called for in the WHO sepsis resolution, and are not yet taking advantage of synergies with the fight against AMR. Unfortunately, this is not only the case in areas where sepsis incidence and AMR problems are highest, such as Africa and South-East Asia. This is why the implementation of the demands in the G7 Health Ministers’ Communiqué is so important.
The aim of this event is:
All are welcome to register and participate for free online or if possible in person in Berlin.
For more information and registration please see: https://www.worldsepsisday.org/wsd-event-2023
Best Sepsis Care for our Kids is a free national forum to recognise Paediatric Sepsis Week (16-22 April 2023), an annual initiative of the Sepsis Alliance that aims to raise awareness of paediatric sepsis.
Sepsis is a leading cause of harm in children worldwide, with infants and children aged under five years at greater risk. In Australia, vital work is being done in healthcare and community settings to increase awareness of paediatric sepsis and improve outcomes for children diagnosed with sepsis and their families.
Sepsis Australia invites you to join Best Sepsis Care for our Kids, a free virtual event on Wednesday 19 April, 2 – 4pm AEST.
Sepsis Champions from across Australia will present on initiatives across the spectrum of care, from acute hospital through to post-sepsis and community programs.
The forum is open to the public and healthcare professionals.
Register here: Best Sepsis Care for our Kids Forum
Preliminary program: Best Sepsis Care for our Kids – Preliminary Program
World Sepsis Congress ‘SPOTLIGHT’: Sepsis Pandemics and Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Threats of the 21st Century – has concluded. All sessions will be released from 15 September. To access the on demand videos see: http://wscspotlight.org
The video from the 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Sepsis Alliance is now available to watch on demand see 3rd Annual ESA Meeting Video
Please use the chapter markers (available in the description box on YouTube) to go directly to the speaker/debate you are interested in most.
Over the course of about 3 hours, presentations were given by:
Additionally, two panel debates were held on the state of national sepsis plans and how to build support for survivors and families.