World Sepsis Congress 2021 – Session 12 and 13 Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

Sessions 12 and 13 from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

Session 12 was chaired by Farhad Imam from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and features the following participants:

  • Improving Yield and Time to Results of Blood Cultures – Evgeny A. Idelevich, University Hospital Greifswald, Germany

  • The Role of Point of Care Pathogen Identification to Fight Overuse of Antibiotics – Holger Rohde, University Hospital Hamburg, Germany

  • Metagenomics for Pathogen Detection and Pandemic Response – Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh

  • Scaling Pathogen Detection for Sepsis in the Global Health Setting – Jessica Manning, International Center of Research, Cambodia

  • The Challenges of AMR in Fighting Tuberculosis – Martin Grobusch, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Sepsis and AMR: Therapeutic and Diagnostic Innovations – Where Are We? – Taslimarif Saiyed, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, India

Session 13 was moderated by Louise Thwaites from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and features the following presentations:

  • Evidence for Role of Biomarkers for Antibiotic Stewardship – Philipp Schütz, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland

  • How Precision Medicine Will Change Sepsis Management – Tom van der Poll, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • mRNA Signatures of Sepsis and Insights Into Causative Organisms – Purvesh Khatri, Stanford University, USA

  • Theragnostics and Phenotyping for the Enrichment of Sepsis Trials – Where Are We? – Hector Wong, Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital, USA

  • Revival of Robust Manual Solutions for Sepsis Diagnostic and AMR Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings: Case Study of Médecins Sans Frontières Mini-Lab – Jean-Baptiste Ronat, Doctors Without Borders, France

  • Harnessing Digital Technologies for Sepsis Diagnosis and Decision Support – Alison Holmes, Imperial College London, UK

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next and final sessions will be ‘Immunomodulatory Treatments in Sepsis and Severe COVID-19 ‘ and ‘Global Standards and Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and COVID-19 Patients’ on June 15th, 2021.

World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Marvin Zick