Learn how findings from the recent COVID-19 pandemic have led to improvements in sepsis awareness globally, as well as our knowledge of sepsis management and ways of enhancing and providing comprehensive sepsis care.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the role that public health and health and food safety organizations have in promoting and supporting an integrated health response in pandemic and other infectious disease outbreaks.
• Recognize how healthcare systems and public health authorities can respond more effectively to infectious diseases and sepsis in low- and middle-income resource-limited countries.
• Learn more about the developing role telehealth medicine has on supporting a more integrated approach to the treatment of sepsis in intensive care settings.
• Perceive novel ways for improving the care of critically ill patients in resource-limited settings by using new technologies and forging broader healthcare collaborationswhich can impact the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of sepsis and other infectious disease threats.
• Identify the importance and benefits of conducting large scale global clinical trials to address global health threats like sepsis.

Instructors:

• Detlev Ganten, Charité University Hospital, Germany (moderator).
• Benedetta Allegranzi, World Health Organization, Switzerland.
• Velina Pendolovska, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission, Luxembourg.
• John Adabie Appiah, African Sepsis Alliance, Ghana.
• Wiltrud Abels, Sepsis Stiftung, Germany.
• Louise Thwaites, Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance, Vietnam.
• John Marshall, Unity Health, Canada.