For her meta-analysis on the global burden of sepsis, Carolin Fleischmann (Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Germany) was awarded the “Hanse Promotionspreis”, a national award for excellent theses in intensive care research, acknowledging the importance of the first systematic analysis of global data on sepsis epidemiology. With 31.5 million sepsis cases and at least 5 million deaths, sepsis is the number one preventable cause of death and a major public health problem worldwide. Global action is needed to reduce the burden of sepsis around the world.
The WHO Executive Board has unanimously decided to recommend the adoption of a resolution on sepsis to the World Health Assembly (WHA).
The WHA is the supreme decision-making body of the WHO. It meets in Geneva in May each year, and is attended by delegations from all 194 member states. Its main purpose is to determine the policies of the WHO.
The Executive Board is composed of 34 individuals technically qualified in the field of health, each one designated by a Member State elected to do so by the WHA. The board meets twice a year and its main function is to give effect to the decisions and policies of the WHA, to advise it and facilitate its work.
The demands of this resolution represent a quantum leap for the goals that we set out in the World Sepsis Declaration five years ago.
This resolution will enormously strengthen our work on the local, national, and global level. It will help us stop sepsis, the number one preventable death worldwide.
Read and download the full resolution here.
Learn more about the governance structure of the WHO here.
Bill Clinton and Joe Kiani at the PSMF Summit 2017
The 5th Annual Summit of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) took place in Dana Point, California, in early February. The mission of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation is ‘Zero Preventable Deaths by 2020’. Key Speakers were Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the USA, and Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the USA.
This year, the Global Sepsis Alliance underlined its commitment to ‘Zero Preventable Deaths by 2020’ in a speech by Prof. Konrad Reinhart, Chairman of the GSA and the Sepsis Foundation, detailing the past work and future endeavors of the GSA. If you want to see his whole talk, please click here (YouTube).
There will also be the Second Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Bonn, Germany on 29/30 March 2017. Dr. Ron Daniels, CEO of the GSA and Founder and CEO of the UK Sepsis Trust, will speak about the goals and achievements of the UKST. Prof. Konrad Reinhart will also give an update on the resolution on sepsis, which was recently recommended to be adopted by the World Health Assembly in May by the Executive Board of the WHO.
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Over the last couple of years, the mission of the GSA has not changed. However, what we do to achieve our goals has drastically become more sophisticated and broader in its scope. Our new website reflects what we do, and what every single one of you can do to help!
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The GSA will hold its next WSD Supporter Meeting on March 22nd at the ISICEM Congress in Brussels, Belgium. Main topics will be a summary of last year’s main GSA and WSD activities, the World Health Assembly – Sepsis Resolution, an Update on the UK National Action Plan Against Sepsis, GSA Advance, the GSA Awards 2017, Report of GSA QIC and Statement on Sepsis-3, Reports on Last Year’s WSD Activities and Plans for 2017 from Supporters and other proposed projects for 2017.
- Wednesday, March 22nd
- 12:30 to 2:30 pm (lunch break of ISICEM)
- Room 206 of the Square Congress Building
- Snacks will be provided
Participation is free of charge and open to everyone. If you want to attend, please write us a short email.
The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is organized in collaboration with the Departments of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine of Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and with the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ). The meeting is held every year in March. Started in 1980, this meeting has become established as one of the largest in its field, now attracting more than 6,200 participants from countries world-wide.
The objectives of this four-day symposium are to provide participants with an up-to-date review of the most recent, clinically relevant, developments in research, therapy, and management of the critically ill. The meeting is open to all physicians, nurses and other health professionals with an interest in critical care or emergency medicine.
For more information please use this link.
The GSA Awards are sponsored by the Erin Kay Flatley Memorial Foundation and recognize major achievements of governments, organizations and
individuals, consistent with the aims of the World Sepsis Declaration and the World Sepsis Day Movement.
Detailed information as well as requirements for submissions can be found here.
Please send your applications to office@world-sepsis-day.org, with the subject 'GSA Awards'
The deadline to apply is March 31st, 2017.
In a clinical study in Sweden, researchers found out that sepsis incidence is much higher than previously expected, using both sepsis definitions from 1991/2001 and the Sepsis-3 definitions.