2020 WSC Spotlight – The Epidemiology and Burden of Sepsis Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

The second session from the 2020 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight is now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

It was chaired by Niranjan ‘Tex‘ Kissoon from Canada and features the following presentations and speakers:

  • Keynote: The Global Burden of Sepsis – Kristina Rudd, University of Pittsburgh, United States of America

  • The Burden of Maternal Sepsis in Fragile Populations – Zenaida Recidoro, National Safe Mother Program Department of Health, Philippines

  • The Burden of Sepsis in Children and Neonates: Lessons Learned from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) – Matthew Westercamp, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America

  • Challenges in Implementing Sepsis and AMR Surveillance – Uduak Okomo, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, The Gambia

  • Drivers of and Inequalities in the Burden of Sepsis in LMICs – Flavia Machado, Global Sepsis Alliance, Brazil

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Global Health Threat’ on 29 September 2020.

The WSC Spotlight: Sepsis, Pandemics, and Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Health Threats of the 21st Century is co-organized by the World Health Organization and the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Katja Couball