Today is World Hand Hygiene Day – clean healthcare is among the most urgent challenges identified by the United Nations to be addressed by the global community in the next 10 years, and is highly relevant in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as fighting against infections, sepsis, and, most prominently in the last 2 years, COVID-19.

For World Hand Hygiene Day 2022, the World Health Organization calls on health workers at all levels and people accessing health care facilities with the need to unite on ensuring clean hands. This year's theme for World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2022, is focused on recognizing that we can add to a facility's climate or culture of safety and quality through cleaning our hands but also that a strong quality and safety culture will encourage people to clean hands at the right times and with the right products.

Please join us in celebrating World Hand Hygiene Day today. Talk and work together on hand hygiene for high quality safer care everywhere. Join the official ‘faces of the campaign initiative, share the official campaign video (embedded below) with your friends and colleagues, get involved on social media, or register your institution, if you have not done so already.

The Opening Session from the 2022 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).

The session was chaired by Louise Thwaites from Vietnam, Member of the WSC Spotlight Scientific Committee and the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance, and features the following presentations and speakers:

• Opening Remarks – Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis

• Peter Hotez – Keynote: The Role of Science and Novel Technologies to Combat 21st Centuries Health Threats

• Direk Limmathurotsakul – What Is Missing in Surveillance of AMR Bacteria in Hospitals in LMICs and HICs?

• Eran Zahavy – Rapid Multiplex Diagnostic Evaluation for Sepsis Using Isothermal Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA)

• Maïwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas – Sepsis Diagnosis with a Cell-Free DNA Sequencing Approach

• Cecilia Ferreyra – Developing a Target Product Profile for Sepsis Diagnostic Platforms Applicable to High Global Sepsis Burden Settings

• Cheikh Tidiane Diagne – Accessible and Affordable Scale-up of Diagnostics in Africa 

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis and COVID-19’ on May 10, 2022.

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

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Full Release Schedule

• May 3, 2022 – S1: Could Enhanced Pathogen Diagnostics Change Sepsis Management?

• May 10, 2022 – S2: Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis and COVID-19

• May 17, 2022 – S3: Panel: Knowledge from COVID-19 to Improve Sepsis Care and Vice Versa

• May 24, 2022 – S4: How to Make the Most of Existing and Frugal Technologies

• May 31, 2022 – S5: Antibiotics and Antivirals – How to Improve Efficacy and Minimize Harm

• June 7, 2022 – S6: Update on Adjunctive Sepsis and COVID-19 Therapies

• June 14, 2022 – S7: Pro-Con: Are Personalized Interventions in Sepsis Even Possible?

• June 21, 2022 – S8: Innovations in Quality Improvement Strategies in All Settings

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The 2022 WSC Spotlight has concluded – thank you all for joining. All sessions were recorded and will be available to watch on-demand on our YouTube Channel and on Apple Podcasts, starting with the Opening Session on May 3. From then on, we will release a new session every Tuesday.

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

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Full Release Schedule

• May 3, 2022 – S1: Could Enhanced Pathogen Diagnostics Change Sepsis Management?

• May 10, 2022 – S2: Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis and COVID-19

• May 17, 2022 – S3: Panel: Knowledge from COVID-19 to Improve Sepsis Care and Vice Versa

• May 24, 2022 – S4: How to Make the Most of Existing and Frugal Technologies

• May 31, 2022 – S5: Antibiotics and Antivirals – How to Improve Efficacy and Minimize Harm

• June 7, 2022 – S6: Update on Adjunctive Sepsis and COVID-19 Therapies

• June 14, 2022 – S7: Pro-Con: Are Personalized Interventions in Sepsis Even Possible?

• June 21, 2022 – S8: Innovations in Quality Improvement Strategies in All Settings

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The 2022 WSC Spotlight has started! Joining is free and incredibly easy – just register here and join the live stream here. It’s not too late to sign up, and we’ll keep registrations open for the entirety of the congress.

Over the course of 8 distinctive and highly relevant sessions, 39 speakers from all regions of the world will share the newest therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for COVID-19 and sepsis, covering all novel aspects of our understanding of bacterial and viral sepsis, from new methods of diagnosis and risk assessment to novel treatment modalities, and beyond.

Like our previous World Sepsis Congresses in 2016, 2018, and 2021 and WSC Spotlights in 2017 and 2020, this free online congress brings together highly ranked representatives of international and national healthcare authorities, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, patients, patient advocacy groups, clinical scientists, researchers, and pioneers in healthcare improvement.

The 2022 WSC Spotlight starts at 09:00h Berlin Time on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 – click here to see the time in your time zone. Joining is free and incredibly easy – just register here and join the live stream here. If you haven’t yet, it’s not too late to sign up.

Over the course of 8 distinctive and highly relevant sessions, 39 speakers from all regions of the world will share the newest therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for COVID-19 and sepsis, covering all novel aspects of our understanding of bacterial and viral sepsis, from new methods of diagnosis and risk assessment to novel treatment modalities, and beyond.

Like our previous World Sepsis Congresses in 2016, 2018, and 2021 and WSC Spotlights in 2017 and 2020, this free online congress brings together highly ranked representatives of international and national healthcare authorities, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, patients, patient advocacy groups, clinical scientists, researchers, and pioneers in healthcare improvement.

The 2022 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight is just one week away, happening live, fully virtually, and free of charge on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 – have you signed up yet?

Over the course of 8 distinctive and highly relevant sessions, 39 speakers from all regions of the world will share the newest therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for COVID-19 and sepsis, covering all novel aspects of our understanding of bacterial and viral sepsis, from new methods of diagnosis and risk assessment to novel treatment modalities, and beyond.

Like our previous World Sepsis Congresses in 2016, 2018, and 2021 and WSC Spotlights in 2017 and 2020, this free online congress brings together highly ranked representatives of international and national healthcare authorities, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, patients, patient advocacy groups, clinical scientists, researchers, and pioneers in healthcare improvement.

The Washington State Hospital Association is looking forward to hosting the 10th annual Pacific Northwest Sepsis Conference on June 6-7, 2022 with both an in-person and virtual attendance option. Registration is now open here.

Speakers include local, national, and international sepsis experts. We will explore sepsis in different populations and in different healthcare settings. We will examine the updated international guidelines of care and the science behind these evidence-based recommendations. Additional sessions include why equity matters in sepsis care, the global burden of sepsis, phenotypes in sepsis, post-sepsis syndrome, case studies in sepsis, and resiliency for healthcare providers. Breakout sessions will use expert panels to offer an in-depth look at data, quality, and performance improvement in sepsis, cutting-edge clinical topics in sepsis care, pediatric sepsis as well as exploring novel therapies in sepsis.  Our audience will learn to be more effective team members and sepsis champions in their hospitals.

The Washington State Hospital Association and Pacific Northwest Sepsis Conference Planning Committee are committed to hosting a diverse and inclusive group of learners. They are offering a generous number of virtual attendance scholarships for international attendees from specific countries (list here) as well as traditional scholarships for learners practicing in other countries. Applications for the scholarship are available here. The application deadline is April 22, 2022, and applicants will be notified and given a code to register by April 28, 2022.  There is also an early-bird discount available until the end of April.

The website for full information on the conference is www.sepsisinseattle.com.

Executives and leaders in healthcare face countless daily challenges, from bolstering clinical insight and driving innovation to pursuing equity and improving the bottom line. Leaders in sepsis care face additional challenges specific to this complex, costly, and difficult-to-diagnose condition: sepsis is still the number one cost and cause of death in U.S. hospitals. There is a tremendous opportunity for improvement in sepsis awareness, innovation, and care —and it starts at the top.

The Sepsis Alliance Leadership Conference: Empowering Improvements in Care, presented T2 Biosystems and bioMérieux, is a free, virtual activity that will place a spotlight on the role healthcare executives and leadership can play in improving awareness, recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis. It will also offer attendees the opportunity to engage with sepsis leaders and subject matter experts from across the country, and to claim FREE nursing CE Credit.

Expert speakers include James Guliano (Vice President, Operations and Chief Clinical Officer, Ohio Hospital Association); Armando Nahum (Co-Founder & President, Safe Care Campaign); and David Mayer (Executive Director, MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety), among others.