Editor’s Note: Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) interviewed Amy Campbell, PhD, RN, CPHQ (LSBB Quality Nurse Specialist, ECU Health; Chair, PPAHS Sepsis Advisory Board) after her presentation at the 4th World Sepsis Congress. This article discusses Ms. Campbell’s presentation and the need for both quantitive and qualitative assessments for sepsis patients.
Winning the War Against Sepsis at the 4th World Sepsis Congress
At the 4th World Sepsis Congress (April 25-26, 2023), more than 85 speakers from more than 35 countries presented on all aspects of sepsis, including the link to pandemics and AMR, the role of AI, ML, big data, patient safety, the impact of policy, novel trial design, and the latest research. The 4th World Sepsis Congress was attended by more than 15,400 registrations from 187 countries (for a copy of the full Congress report, please click here).
One of the presenters at the 4th World Sepsis Congress was Amy Campbell, PhD, RN, CPHQ (LSBB Quality Nurse Specialist, ECU Health; Chair, PPAHS Sepsis Advisory Board). She spoke with:
- Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Institut Pasteur, Senegal.
- Elisa Estenssoro, Hospital Interzonal San Martin de La Plata, Argentina.
- François Ventura, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Miriam Huntley, Day Zero Diagnostics, United States of America.
- Tan Toh Leong, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.
- Rishi Kamaleswaran, Emory University, United States of America.
Ms. Campbell emphasized the need to recognize the many faces saying, “If we aren’t able to treat the underlying condition that resulted in the development of sepsis, the 19-year old mother, the nursing home patient, and the patient with a tooth abscess will all be re-admitted to the hospital for sepsis. In the case of the 19-year-old mother, it was her IV drug use and the needles she was using that caused her sepsis – by not treating her drug addiction meant that she had repeated emergency room visits.”
Winning the War Against Sepsis
To read the entire article on Open Access Government about this 4th World Sepsis Congress presentation, “Advances in Timely Pathogen and Sepsis Detection”, please click here.
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