'Combating Sepsis: Global and National Strategies' – GSA Session at the 2021 World Health Summit Now Available Online

This year’s World Health Summit devoted one session on 24 October to discuss global and national strategies to combat sepsis. The session was jointly moderated by GSA Vice President, Abdulelah Alhawsawi, and GSA Founding President and ESA Steering Committee member Konrad Reinhart. The panel included GSA’s Flavia Machado, from the Latin America Sepsis Institute, Janet Diaz from the World Health Organization, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek from the Jena University Hospital, as well as Jean-Marc Cavaillon from the Institut Pasteur.

This session provided insights on the role of the immune system in sepsis and the potential of novel immunomodulatory therapeutic approaches, as well as an update on the burden of sepsis and an overview on the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for sepsis prevention and care at the national and healthcare facility level. The challenges to fight sepsis in resource-limited settings were also discussed, as well as the lessons learned from the current pandemic for the fight against infections and sepsis by other pathogens.