Life After Sepsis Guide

Sepsis affects the whole body, so recovery also involves the whole body. Most patients who survive sepsis will eventually fully recover. Others may face long-term consequences. It is important to know that recovery may take months or years. After-sepsis effects, often called Post-Sepsis Syndrome or Post-Sepsis Symptoms, can present very diverse consequences that sometimes appear even years later.

This brochure aims at guiding survivors and their families and at informing the general public, patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals about sepsis. It explains that there is a need for an urgent response, considering the potential consequences of sepsis, including lifelong disabilities.

The more people know about sepsis the better we can prevent, treat, and manage it. Please download and share the guide on social media or, if you are an organization or an authority, consider embedding it on your web site (see the Life After Sepsis Guide on the Romanian Health Ministry website here, for example).

Translations in additional languages will follow. Should you wish to help us distribute hard copies of the guide in relevant healthcare facilities in your country, please contact us.