Session 3 from the 2022 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight – ‘Panel: Knowledge from COVID-19 to Improve Sepsis Care and Vice Versa’ – 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 Madiha Hashmi from the Ziauddin University in Pakistan, and features the following presentations and speakers, followed by a comprehensive panel discussion:

• Janet Diaz – Why Severe COVID-19 Belongs Under the Umbrella of Sepsis

• Hallie Prescott – Novel Insights in the Pathophysiology of Sepsis and Its Sequelae by COVID-19

• Abdulelah Alhawsawi – The Role of Policymakers and Media for Awareness and Management of Pandemics and Sepsis

• Niels Riedemann – The Challenges to Evaluate Novel Therapeutic Approaches During Pandemics

• Flavia Machado – Lessons Learned by Researches in LMICs

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘How to Make the Most of Existing and Frugal Technologies’ on May 24, 2022.

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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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Global healthcare community Coda is excited to share that they are bringing their highly-anticipated four-day event, #Coda22, to Melbourne this September 11-14.

Standing out amongst an array of immersive sessions is the Sepsis: Leave Nothing and No One Behind workshop. Across four thought-provoking hours, a panel of experts will dive into how and why critically-ill patients with sepsis require so much more than just good medical care.

Sepsis specialists from a diverse range of medical backgrounds (medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, speech pathology, and more) will be placed in the spotlight for this transdisciplinary workshop. They will pay homage to those involved with all aspects of sepsis patient care, whilst also exposing evidence and equity gaps within the field.

The following day – September 13 – will see #Coda22 present a dedicated Sepsis Cure session for World Sepsis Day. Five world experts will tackle a broad spectrum of topics and challenges affecting the global sepsis community including:

• The WHA Sepsis Resolution

• Quality Improvement in an LMIC

• Sepsis and Antimicrobial Stewardship

• The Australian Sepsis Program

Sepsis: Leave Nothing and No One Behind and the dedicated Sepsis Cure session are just two of many engaging sessions on show across four action-packed days at #Coda22.

Session 2 from the 2022 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight – ‘Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis and COVID-19’ – 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 Binila Chacko from the Christian Medical College Vellore, India, and features the following presentations and speakers:

• Tom van der Poll – Host Response Biomarkers in Sepsis and COVID-19: What Are the Differences?

• Brendon Scicluna – Blood Transcriptomics in Sepsis and COVID-19: What Have We Learned?

• Marie Scully – The Procoagulant States of Sepsis and COVID-19: How Alike Are They?

• Peter Pickkers – Biomarkers of Endothelial Activation and Function in Sepsis and COVID-19: Guide for Targeted Therapy?

• Evdoxia Kyriazopoulou – Procalcitonin in Sepsis and COVID-19: When Should We Use It?

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘Knowledge from COVID-19 to Improve Sepsis Care and Vice Versa’ on May 17, 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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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.