Joining SAVE LIVES: “It’s in your hands – prevent sepsis in health care”

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“WHO calls on health facilities to prevent health care-associated sepsis through hand hygiene and infection prevention and control (IPC) action. Sepsis is estimated to affect more than 30 million patients every year worldwide. At the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017, Member States adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis”

 

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The global burden of sepsis

Sepsis is one of the most prevalent but misdiagnosed, deadly diseases and has been established as a global priority by the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO)…

…Despite its significant global impact, awareness of sepsis has been historically poor…

…The disease burden of sepsis is a global issue. However a precise estimate of the global epidemiological burden of sepsis is difficult to ascertain. Although the rate of mortality related to sepsis has been declined in high income countries, the mortality of sepsis in low and middle income countries, which occupy most of the world’s population, remains high or may be rendered such due to the lack of epidemiological data…

…Sepsis is a multifaceted host response to an infecting pathogen that may be significantly amplified by endogenous factors… Sepsis is frequently underdiagnosed at an early stage when it is still potentially reversible. If left untreated, it may lead to the functional impairment of one or more vital organs or systems.

…Sepsis is a burdensome condition worldwide in terms of morbidity, mortality and financial cost to health systems. Its global nature calls for a global response, both in the geographic sense and across the whole range of sectors involved…

…There is urgent need to implement global strategies to monitor sepsis morbidity and mortality from a global perspective…

…On Friday, May 26th, 2017, the World Health Assembly and the World Health Organization made sepsis a global health priority, by adopting a resolution to improve, prevent, diagnose, and manage sepsis adopting sepsis as a global priority…

The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery joins the global declaration and its goals.

 

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