The Pediatric Sepsis Data CoLaboratory (Sepsis Colab) is a new international data-sharing network of healthcare workers, policymakers, researchers, and advocacy partners collaborating to address the high burden of pediatric sepsis mortality and morbidity globally. The network was formed through a partnership between the Centre for International Child Health (CICH) at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS).

The vision for the Sepsis CoLab arose out of the recognition that despite important milestones recently achieved in the fight against sepsis, lack of routinely collected data and coordination is hampering progress. The Sepsis CoLab shares data to further common priorities among collaborators to improve sepsis treatments and outcomes and facilitates partnerships to develop and validate tools for data collection and sharing, enabling continuous quality improvement of care in health facilities across the world.

Those interested in joining the Sepsis CoLab are invited to complete a brief Membership Application here.

Sepsis CoLab Members are provided with networking opportunities and mentorship as well as access to a host of resources shared through Scholars Portal Dataverse, a secure, open-source data repository.

Sessions 12 and 13 from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

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Session 12 was chaired by Farhad Imam from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and features the following participants:

• Improving Yield and Time to Results of Blood Cultures – Evgeny A. Idelevich, University Hospital Greifswald, Germany

• The Role of Point of Care Pathogen Identification to Fight Overuse of Antibiotics – Holger Rohde, University Hospital Hamburg, Germany

• Metagenomics for Pathogen Detection and Pandemic Response – Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh

• Scaling Pathogen Detection for Sepsis in the Global Health Setting – Jessica Manning, International Center of Research, Cambodia

• The Challenges of AMR in Fighting Tuberculosis – Martin Grobusch, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Sepsis and AMR: Therapeutic and Diagnostic Innovations – Where Are We? – Taslimarif Saiyed, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, India

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Session 13 was moderated by Louise Thwaites from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and features the following presentations:

• Evidence for Role of Biomarkers for Antibiotic Stewardship – Philipp Schütz, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland

• How Precision Medicine Will Change Sepsis Management – Tom van der Poll, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• mRNA Signatures of Sepsis and Insights Into Causative Organisms – Purvesh Khatri, Stanford University, USA

• Theragnostics and Phenotyping for the Enrichment of Sepsis Trials – Where Are We? – Hector Wong, Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital, USA

• Revival of Robust Manual Solutions for Sepsis Diagnostic and AMR Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings: Case Study of Médecins Sans Frontières Mini-Lab – Jean-Baptiste Ronat, Doctors Without Borders, France

• Harnessing Digital Technologies for Sepsis Diagnosis and Decision Support – Alison Holmes, Imperial College London, UK

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Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next and final sessions will be ‘Immunomodulatory Treatments in Sepsis and Severe COVID-19 ‘ and ‘Global Standards and Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and COVID-19 Patients’ on June 15th, 2021.

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World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Our friends from the Sepsis Alliance are hosting ‘Sepsis Tech & Innovation 2021’, a two-day virtual conference on June 22-23, 2021.

This conference brings sepsis technology development together with clinical leadership to connect ideas, products, and implementation to improve patient care across the continuum of care, from sepsis prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics, rehabilitation, and recovery. Highly respected nationally renowned speakers will explore various aspects of technology developments in clinical practice, innovation, investment, and policy that will impact the future of sepsis care.

We strongly suggest you take a look at the program and sign up for free for this amazing online event!

Sessions 10 and 11 from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

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Session 10 was chaired by our very own Nathan Nielsen and features the following participants:

• Improving Early Recognition and Survival of Sepsis by Digital Support Systems – Basil Matta, Cambridge University Hospital, UK

• How Can We Leverage AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve the Diagnosis of Sepsis? – Mohammad Aldeeb, Masimo, UAE

• How AI Can Improve the Treatment of Sepsis – Matthieu Komorowski, Imperial College London, UK

• Wireless Monitoring and the Future of Sepsis Care – Heather Duncan, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK

• COVID-19 Treatment by Telemedicine – Asad Latif, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

• Impact of Telemedicine for COVID-19 Management at the Regional Level – Björn Weiss, Charité University Berlin, Germany

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Session 11 was moderated by Flavia Machado, member of the GSA Executive and Founding President of the Latin American Sepsis Institute, and features the following presentations:

• The Role of Platform Trials in Critical Care: Adaptation of the Remap-Cap Trial During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Kathy Rowan, Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre, UK

• From Innovative Trials to Guidelines: The WHO Method – François Lamontagne, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

• Tocilizumab in COVID-19 – Anthony Gordon, Imperial College London, UK

• Corticosteroids in COVID-19: Where Are We? – Luciano Azevedo, Latin American Sepsis Institute, Brazil

• Implementation of the RECOVERY Platform in the UK – Peter Horby, University of Oxford, UK

• Vitamins in Sepsis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Tomoko Fujii, Jikei University Hospital, Japan

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Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘Advances in Pathogen Detection and the Fight Against AMR ‘ and ‘Novel Approaches in the Diagnosis of Sepsis and COVID-19’ on June 8th, 2021.

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World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

From June 15 to 18, the ESPNIC 2021 Congress will take place as an Online Xperience, and not in person in Athens as previously planned – simply due to the current strain on everybody’s professional and personal schedules making traveling to Athens an enormous challenge for us all.

The ESPNIC Executive Committee seeks to ensure that the ESPNIC community can come together in 2021 with equal opportunity to access the program, wherever they are located. Therefore, it has been decided that ESPNIC 2021 Xperience will be transformed into an interactive online experience.

There will be a 4-day live schedule of demonstrations, deep-dive discussions, latest trial results, keynote lectures, and Q&A with the speakers. A menu of sessions will be available on VOD throughout the congress days and for an extended period of 3 months after the congress. All live sessions will be added to the VOD library for you to re-watch on your schedule. In addition, ESPNIC will be launching ESPNIC TV bringing you to live moderated conversations from our TV studio. Interviews with principal investigators, interactive panel discussions, and more.

The virtual platform will also host a virtual ESPNIC Hub for all things related to the ESPNIC society, the new education portal, virtual exhibition hall, product theater, science on the bar, etc.

ESPNIC believes that ESPNIC 2021: An Online Xperience will bridge the distance currently felt between us and help you and your team enter into 2021 with confidence – we hope to see you online for an ESPNIC Xperience like no other!

ABOUT ESPNIC

The European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) is a Europe-wide medical association that works to promote pediatric and neonatal intensive care standards among health care professionals, notably doctors and nurses. ESPNIC is a proud member of the Global Sepsis Alliance.

Sessions 8 and 9 from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

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Session 8 was chaired by our very own Imrana Malik and features the following participants:

• From Adults to Elderly: Surviving Sepsis but Dying Sooner – Hallie Prescott, University of Michigan, USA

• Informing Pediatric Survivorship With Qol Indicators: Where Does the Data Guide Us? – Jerry Zimmerman, Seattle Children‘s Hospital, USA

• What Do Long-Term Sequelae of Sepsis Look Like in LMICs? – Jamie Rylance, African Research Collaboration on Sepsis, Malawi

• Societal Costs of Surviving Sepsis: Healthcare System and Out-of-Pocket – Tim Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine, USA

• Caregivers Outcomes after Sepsis/COVID-19 – Elie Azoulay, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, France

• Long-Term Outcome of COVID-19 – Margaret Herridge, Toronto General Hospital, Canada

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Session 9 was a roundtable discussion by people affected by sepsis and family members, moderated by Aurica Pripa from the European Sepsis Alliance:

• Participants:

  • Annette von Butler, Germany

  • Elisa Perego, Italy

  • Katy Grainger, USA

  • Mick O’Dowd, Australia

  • Mohan Ramaswamy, India

  • Muhammad Sohaib, Pakistan

  • Zarah Geduld-Bont, New Zealand

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Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘The Role of AI, Big Data, and Digitalization in Combating Sepsis and COVID-19‘ and ‘Impactful Trials and Innovative Trial Design in Sepsis and COVID-19 ’ on June 1st, 2021.

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World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Join the Group B Strep in Pregnancy and Babies Virtual Conference on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 to get right up-to-date with the key issues on group B Strep during pregnancy, labour and the early months after a baby’s birth. This is a must-see event for anyone interested in group B Strep.

Group B Strep is the most common cause of severe infection in newborn babies in the UK and many other developed countries, causing sepsis, pneumonia or meningitis, and here the rate continues to rise. 

At the conference, world-leading experts will share their knowledge, expertise and research. This will include the latest recommendations on preventing and treating GBS infection in babies, how to detect these infections, different test methods, the impact of neonatal GBS infection, and progress towards a maternal vaccine.

Conference Chairs are Edward Morris (President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Chair of Trustees for Group B Strep Support) & Kathryn Gutteridge (President of the Royal College of Midwives and Trustee of Group B Strep Support).

Speakers include Carol J Baker (Professor of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Sabin Gold Medal winner, National Academy of Sciences, USA), Prof Androulla Efstratiou (Imperial College London and Director, WHO Global Collaborating Centre for Diphtheria & Streptococcal Infections) and Prof Anne Mackie (Director of Screening for Public Health England).

Recordings of the sessions will be made available to delegates for one month after the conference. The conference is approved by the Royal College of Pathologists for 6 CPD credits

Who should attend?

• Midwives and Matrons

• Obstetricians

• Microbiologists

• Neonatologists and Paediatricians

• GPs

• Public Health Specialists

• Maternity Educators

• Other interested stakeholders

Sessions 6 and 7 from the World Sepsis Congress 2021 are now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

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Session 6 was chaired by Mike Christian from Royal London Hospital, and features the following participants:

• Roundtable Discussion by Healthcare Workers:

  • Benedetta Allegranzi, World Health Organization, Switzerland

  • Cornelius Sendagire, Makerere University, Uganda

  • Diptesh Aryal, Nepal Mediciti, Nepal

  • Matt Walton, National Health Service, London, UK

  • Mervyn Mer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Samantha Bates, Western Health, Australia

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Session 7 was moderated by Vida Hamilton from the Health Service Executive, and features the following presentations and speakers:

• The Unique Considerations of Sepsis in Children – Andrew Argent, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Recognizing COVID as Sepsis – Flavia Machado, Global Sepsis Alliance, Brazil

• Sepsis and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis – David Barr, University of Liverpool, UK

• Sepsis and Diarrhoeal Disease – Mohammod Chisti, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

• Sepsis and Dengue – Sophie Yacoub, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam

• Sepsis and Malaria – Arjen Dondorp, Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance, Thailand

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Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next sessions will be ‘Long-Term Sequelae from Sepsis and COVID-19’ and ‘The Missing Stories: Families and Survivors of Sepsis and COVID-19’ on May 25th, 2021.

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World Sepsis Congress 2021 is a project by the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.