Sessions 5 and 6 from 4th WSC Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

Sessions 5 and 6 from the 4th World Sepsis Congress 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 5: Advances and Challenges by Our Regional Sepsis Alliances

Increasing Sepsis Recognition in Africa via Advocacy
Emmanuel Nsutebu, African Sepsis Alliance, United Arab Emirates

Fostering Quality Improvement in Sepsis Management in Africa via Research
Shevin Jacob, African Research Collaboration on Sepsis, Uganda

Responding to the Burden of Sepsis Across the Asia Pacific Through Regional Advocacy, Education, and Support for Low-Resource Settings
Madiha Hashmi, Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance, Pakistan

Progress and Challenges in Placing Sepsis on the European Agenda
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, European Sepsis Alliance, Greece

The Progress in the Fight Against Sepsis in Latin America
Daniela Souza, Latin American Sepsis Institute, Brazil

Sepsis Quality Improvement in Qatar: An Experience From the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Rasha Ashour, Eastern Mediterranean Sepsis Alliance, Qatar


Session 6: Advances in Timely Pathogen and Sepsis Detection

A Need for Early Diagnosis – Taking the Patient Experience into Consideration
Amy Campbell, ECU Health, United States of America

Health Inequities as a Barrier to the Timely Diagnosis of Sepsis
Elissa Estensoro, Hospital Interzonal San Martin de La Plata, Argentina

Current Research on Sepsis Biomarkers and Early Diagnosis
François Ventura, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland

Is Sequencing Useful to Detect Sepsis? A Tour of Metagenomics and Transcriptomics for Timely Infection Diagnosis
Miriam Huntley, Day Zero Diagnostics, United States of America

Sepsis Diagnosis: A Paradigm Shift Towards Biosensing
Tan Toh Leong, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

An Interpretable Machine Learning Model for Accurate Prediction of Sepsis in the ICU
Rishi Kamaleswaran, Emory University, United States of America


Two sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘The Benefits of Multidisciplinary Teams in Sepsis Care on the Health Care Facility Level’ and ‘The Potential and Challenges to Intervene with the Immune Response’ on May 23, 2023.

You can already subscribe on either platform to be automatically notified once new sessions are available.


Full Release Schedule

  • May 2:

    • S1: Opening Session – Key Success Factors to Address Global Health Threats

    • S2: The Health Economic and Human Burden of Infections and Pandemics

  • May 9:

    • S3: Overcoming Silos to Address Infection-Related Global Health Threats

    • S4: The Quality of Healthcare Systems and QI Efforts on Outcomes from Sepsis and Pandemics

  • May 16:

    • S5: Advances and Challenges by Our Regional Sepsis Alliances

    • S6: Advances in Timely Pathogen and Sepsis Detection

  • May 23:

    • S7: The Benefits of Multidisciplinary Teams in Sepsis Care on the Health Care Facility Level

    • S8: The Potential and Challenges to Intervene with the Immune Response

  • May 30:

    • S9: Biomarkers and Antimicrobial Stewardship – The Synergies to Diagnose Sepsis and to Prevent AMR

    • S10: Lessons from the Pandemic to Fight Common Infections and Sepsis

  • June 6:

    • S11: Understanding and Improving Long-term Outcomes after Sepsis and COVID-19

    • S12: Neonatal Sepsis Platforms and Guidelines

  • June 13:

    • S13: The Impact of Survivors and Family Members to Improve Sepsis Awareness and Advocacy

    • S14: Maternal Sepsis: Why Is It Still in the Top 3 for Global Incidence of Sepsis?

  • June 20:

    • S15: Harnessing the Media to Advance the Global Fight Against Sepsis

    • S16: An Update on Research on Sepsis


Marvin Zick