Promoting patient safety and improving the quality of patient care
Category: Sepsis
Free Three-Module Series Equips Clinicians to Navigate the Sepsis “Gray Zone”
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) is proud to release an accredited continuing medical education course designed to strengthen clinical judgment in the early identification of sepsis. The series is free of charge, self-paced, and completely online.
Sepsis causes 1 out of every 5 deaths. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General urges us to take action against sepsis:
“The world must urgently step up efforts to improve data about sepsis so all countries can detect and treat this terrible condition in time. This means strengthening health information systems and ensuring access to rapid diagnostic tools, and quality care including safe and affordable medicines and vaccines.”
Continue reading “Sepsis is a Patient Safety Crisis: Two Free Events You Must Attend”
By Michael W. Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
Amy Campbell, Ph.D., RN, CPHQ, LSBB (Quality Nurse Specialist, ECU Health) is always showing up for sepsis!
When I mentioned to Dr. Campbell, who is also the chair of our Sepsis Advisory Board, that the Global Sepsis Alliance had invited me to speak at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, I was not thinking that she would come and speak at the event. Well, perhaps I was hoping she would, but the distance between North Carolina and Manhattan is more than 500 miles (entailing more than a 9-hour drive or an almost 2-hour flight).
Continue reading “Showing Up for Sepsis: Dr. Amy Campbell Speaks at UN General Assembly Week”
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.
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).
On April 23, 2024, the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) co-hosted the 2024 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight, “Unmet Need in Sepsis Diagnosis and Therapy”. This one-day conference featured 61 speakers and moderators from 29 countries.
In 9 sessions, internationally renowned speakers, panelists, and moderators addressed the role of AI, predictive modeling in sepsis, the need for early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in surgical patients, the role of biomarkers, personalized approaches to sepsis management, how hypervolemia increases the mortality risk in sepsis, community programs to prevent and diagnose sepsis, and much more.
Continue reading “More Than 12,000 People Attended the 2024 World Sepsis Spotlight”
To learn more about the 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis, please register to listen to the livestream of the multi-stakeholder dialogue that will take place on May 28, 2024.
The Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) will again collaborate to improve sepsis care.
On April 23, 2024, GSA and PPAHS will host the 2024 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight, “Unmet Need in Sepsis Diagnosis and Therapy”.
Can we learn from the COVID pandemic? If so, what can we learn from the COVID Pandemic to prevent another pandemic?
COVID has been the biggest health emergency in recent times, with over 700 million cases and nearly seven million deaths. It caused disruption across the globe and enormous pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.
In describing the death toll from the COVID Pandemic, WHO (World Health Organization) believes that the true death toll has been underreported:
On 30 January 2020 COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with an official death toll of 171. By 31 December 2020, this figure stood at 1 813 188. Yet preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is at least 3 million, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported.
With the latest COVID-19 deaths reported to WHO now exceeding 3.4 million, based on the excess mortality estimates produced for 2020, we are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19.
Continue reading “Lessons from the COVID Pandemic to Fight Against Sepsis and Common Infections”
The COVID Pandemic touched us all with disease, death, and isolation.
In an article published in Open Access Government, a digital publication that provides an in-depth perspective on key public policy areas from all around the world, Michael Wong, JD (Founder & Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) and Amy Campbell, Ph.D., RN, CPHQ, LSBB (Quality Nurse Specialist, ECU Health; Chair, PPAHS Sepsis Advisory Board) gather the thoughts and recommendations from the recent 4th World Sepsis Congress on how the pandemic, while tragic, showed new ways of working that could be applied in the battle against sepsis.
To read the article on Open Access Government, please visit (p 51).
Or, read a PDF of the article, by clicking on the image below:
Continue reading “What Can We Learn from the COVID Pandemic?”
By Dr. Joni Grace, BHMS, PGDCR, Strategic Case Management Consultant, Jhpiego (Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics)
Sepsis is a serious and potentially life-threatening medical condition characterized by a dysregulated systemic response to infection. It is a major global health concern, accounting for a significant number of hospital admissions, prolonged stays, and mortality rates worldwide.
Hospital-acquired sepsis occurs when an infection develops after admission to a healthcare facility, such as a hospital or long-term care facility. It typically arises due to the introduction of pathogens into the patient’s bloodstream through invasive procedures, contaminated medical devices, surgical sites, or poor hygiene practices. Common causative organisms include Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Candida species.
The global burden of sepsis is difficult to ascertain, although a recent scientific publication estimated that in 2017 there were 48.9 million cases and 11 million sepsis-related deaths worldwide, which accounted for almost 20% of all global deaths. In 2017, almost half of all global sepsis cases occurred among children, with an estimated 20 million cases and 2.9 million global deaths in children under five years of age.
