With the support of CSL Behring Australia (see CSL), the Australian Sepsis Network has partnered with Continulus to provide a dedicated sepsis education digital platform for health professionals to access live, on demand and interactive training resources to improve recogntion, awareness, clinical care and post sepsis support for recovery to optimise outcomes and reduce the burden of sepsis. We welcome contbutions from
Sepsis in children website is now live! The Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Project have launched a new resource to improve awareness, early recognition and management of paediatric sepsis. Check out this fantastic resource for families and clinicians. See: https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/sepsis/
With the pandemic progressing comes more data, and said data shows a majority of patients ventilated for #COVID19 have #septicshock. More on the link between #sepsis and #COVID, explained by Simon Finfer from @georgeinstitute Read more here: COVID19 and sepsis
A new Australian resource is now available to provide information and guidance for sepsis survivors, their friends, families and carers, and bereaved families to help them navigate the often challenging post sepsis period. See: ASN Life After Sepsis (v1.1) 12102020
This guide aims to inform early hospital discharge planning, provide survivors advice for recovery, foster connections with sepsis support groups and assist bereaved families through their grief and sadness. The value of lived experiences of sepsis in providing this support, cannot be underestimated.
Thank you to the ASN Consumer Advisory and Support Group, and Ms Fiona Gray (Chair) for their guidance and contribution to the development of this resource.
This guide is a living document and as such will evolve over time to encompass advances in post sepsis recovery and support.
Ahead of World Sepsis Day on September 13, the World Health Organizations first global report on sepsis finds that knowledge gaps are hampering efforts to tackle the millions of deaths and disabilities due to sepsis, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. For more information see: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/334216/9789240010789-eng.pdf
Sepsis kills an estimated 11 million people each year and disables millions more.
With most sepsis studies conducted in hospitals and intensive care units in high-income countries, there is little evidence from the rest of the world. Different definitions of sepsis, diagnostic criteria and hospital discharge coding are also making it difficult to develop a clear understanding of the true global burden of sepsis.
The WHO is calling on the global community to help address these gaps through improved study design and data collection and advocating for greater research funding as well as better surveillance systems, diagnostic tools and education for health workers and communities.
Read the WHO’s full media release here.
Failure to recognise and treat sepsis results in another tragic and preventable death.
Statement by The George Institute for Global Health Australian Sepsis Network.
The Queensland Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO) has concluded that ‘systemic failures’ played a role in the tragic death of a young Aboriginal boy named Charlie Izaak Wilfred Gowa, from far north Queensland who was turned away from hospital six times and subsequently died of sepsis Charlies Story
While failure to recognise and treat sepsis has caused preventable deaths and disabilities in people from all walks of life, we know that the burden of severe sepsis falls disproportionately on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
While the need for a broad-based sepsis awareness program for the public and front-line health care workers has been recognised and promoted by the ASN and its partners, it is imperative to consider how this intersects with the wider systemic issue of access to culturally safe care in order to reduce the disproportionate burden for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The George Institute for Global Health and the Australian Sepsis Network support the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan that uses a human rights and social determinants approach and a vision of a health system free of racism and inequality whereby all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to health services that are effective, high quality and appropriate.
If we are to reduce the higher incidence of sepsis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples we must move beyond a strictly biomedical approach to the disease and understand the broader social and cultural determinants of health that lead to such tragedies and system failures.
Charlie’s family have expressed that they want his story to be shared in order to stop further deaths from sepsis and to highlight the need for culturally safe and responsive health care.
Charlie Gowa, six, died from sepsis in January 2017. His mother, Xernona Poi Poi, wants justice for her son.
The Australian Sepsis Network is hosted by The George Institute for Global Health, Australia.
13 Sept 2020 World Sepsis Day WORLD SEPSIS DAY 2020
EPISODE ONE – PANDEMIC SEPSIS
Virtual Event 5th August 2020 @ 8am AEST (1 hour)
Cost: $25 AUD
Design lead: Prof Simon Finfer
In mid 2017 the World Health Assembly identified Sepsis as a global health priority. Sepsis is “a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.” The Covid-19 Pandemic has catapulted many of the challenges facing the management of global sepsis into the spotlight. What have we learnt and what actions do we need to take?
In this session we will cover Sepsis and Vaccination through the COVID lens. A clear threat to global health, the burden of Sepsis and Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is Coda’s first priority in taking action under our “Cure” advocacy pillar. The Coda Zero virtual event designed around Sepsis and Vaccination provides a seamless opportunity to connect and commence this advocacy agenda immediately.
About CODA:
CODA is a global health community that comes together to quickly generate, prove and share revolutionary healthcare ideas to solve urgent global health challenges. CODA has four central commitments to their mission, which provide the framework for the community to act:
On Monday, May 18th and Tuesday, May 19th, the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly took place in Geneva. The Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported on the progress of the 2017 WHA resolution on “Improving the prevention, diagnosis, and clinical management of sepsis“.
For more information see: 73rd WHA progress on sepsis
To access the report WHA sepsis progress report 2020
Just released – See: SCC COVID-19 Guidelines
The SSC COVID-19 subcommittee panel (36 experts from 12 countries) issued 53 statements based on the available evidence, four of which are best practices based on high-quality evidence:
