2020 WSC Spotlight – A Comprehensive and Integrated Approach to Preventing Sepsis and AMR

The fifth session from the 2020 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).

It was chaired by Folasade Ogunsola from Nigeria, and features the following presentations and speakers:

  • WHO IPC Strategy to Prevent AMR and Sepsis – Benedetta Allegranzi, World Health Organization, Switzerland

  • Keynote: Preventing Infection and Improving Health in LMICs: Lessons Learned from Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programmes  – Kelly Ann Naylor, UNICEF, United States of America

  • The Impact of BCG Vaccination on COVID-19 and Respiratory Infections – Evangelos Giamarellos, European Sepsis Alliance, Greece

  • Preventing Sepsis and AMR in ICU Patients – Mervyn Mer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘Early Identification and Appropriate Clinical Management of Sepsis Saves Lives and Prevents AMR ’ on 20 October 2020.

The WSC Spotlight: Sepsis, Pandemics, and Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Health Threats of the 21st Century is co-organized by the World Health Organization and the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Katja Couball