Team Sepsis Plan is a program being designed for simultaneous deployment in the Developed and Developing World.
Unlike many efforts which focus on waging life and death struggles against sepsis in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), Team Sepsis is responsive to the disturbing reality that, even in rich countries, nearly 1/3 of all cases of sepsis come in healthcare facility doors as emergencies. Another 1/3 are- or should be- discovered outside the ICU in general patient populations.
In poor countries, ICUs are very few and very far between. The kind of care available to the general patient population in developed countries is frequently the very best healthcare available in developing countries. In both rich and poor countries therefore, the battle against sepsis must be waged “at the door and on the floor”.
In recognition of this common ground, Alliance Partners with a depth of understanding and experience in each setting- rich and poor- are working collaboratively to develop a common approach to early detection and effective management using readily available therapeutic resources. As important as identification of effective treatment protocols is the development of delivery systems that are organically of, by and for the environments they are meant to serve. Only then will even the most efficacious programs be sustainable.
The Global Sepsis Alliance - is a newly forming entity led by a collaboration of the Sepsis Alliance, the International Sepsis Forum, the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine in an effort to elevate public, philanthropic and governmental awareness; to promote understanding and support of sepsis; and to accelerate collaboration among researchers, clinicians, associated working groups and those dedicated to supporting those groups. Specifically, the mission of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) is to provide opportunities supportive of global interaction and defined output such that the Global Community might:.
- Address with equal commitment and vigor, the needs of both adults and children in the developed and developing world
- “Speak in One Voice” offering consistent, easily understood messaging to governments, philanthropies and the public
- Be empowered to easily identify and access resources and people of common purpose and intent within and without the scientific community
- Be supported in the process of developing proposals for experiments, trials, projects and programs in support of researchers, caregivers and the public
- Secure funding to implement such efforts
The first meeting of the Membership Congress will be concurrent with the Merinoff Symposium in New York September of 2010.
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Note: Agenda is a work in progress.
The Merinoff Symposium - September 30 – October 1, 2010 the Merinoff Symposium: Sepsis “An International Call to Action” will be hosted in New York by the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and co-hosted by the Sepsis Alliance, International Sepsis Forum, World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. This first assembly the Global Sepsis Alliance will bring together more than 125 World Leaders representing more than 200,000 experts in sepsis research and clinical application of promising therapeutics. The Goals: to produce a current Molecular Definition of Sepsis, a Public Definition of Sepsis and to issue of a Call-to-Action to recognize sepsis as the leading cause of death worldwide.
Code Sepsis™ - The Sepsis Alliance is on the cutting edge of educating and training medical professionals about Sepsis. Our Code Sepsis™ program is designed specifically to help emergency responders and hospital personnel on how to spot the signs of Sepsis, and then providing them with the tools that they need to quickly treat patients.
