Current Activities and Meetings...
New Activities
Poster Awards- The ISF
will be providing awards for the best poster on Sepsis at ECCMID, ESICM
and Sepsis 2010. More detail will be made available on
this site in the future.
SCCM 2010
ISF Session
Tuesday, Jan 12 - 10am-12pm
Non-culture Methods should Replace Standard Blood Culures
Pro: S Opal
Con: P Dellinger
We Should use Biomarkers to Guide Care for Sepsis Patients
Pro: J. Marshall
Con: D. Angus
Tight Glycemic Control: Still Indicated in Patients with Sepsis
Pro: J-L Vincent
Con: K Reinhart
ISICEM 2010, 9-12 March
ISF is endorsing the International Symposium for
Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) Brussels, March 2010
8th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis: ISF Joint Session with TSIS 2010
Friday 12 March 2010, Munich, Germany
Moderators: Chairs: Tom van der Poll, Amsterdam, NL & Thierry Calandra, Lausanne, CH
Combination Antibiotic Therapy is Always Indicated in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock PRO: S. Opal, Pawticket, US
CON: T. Calandra, Lausanne, CH
Sepsis Markers Should be Part of Standard Care of Patients with Suspected Sepsis
PRO: K. Reinhart, Jena, DE
CON: T. van der Poll, Amsterdam, NL
Albumin Should be Part of Fluid Resuscitation in Patients with Septic Shock
PRO: M. Rehm, Munich, DE
CON: J. Marshall, Toronto, CDA
Use of Low Dose Vasopressin in Septic Shock is Beneficial?
PRO: M. Levy, Providence, US
CON: R.P. Dellinger, Camden, US
ISF Joint Session with ECCMID 2010
Saturday 10 April 2010, Vienna, Austria
Chairs: Tom van der Poll, Amsterdam, NL & Thierry Calandra, Lausanne, CH
Histones in Sepsis - Thierry Roger, Lausanne, CH
Pattern Recognition in Fungal Sepsis - Mihai Netea, Nijmegen, NL
H1N1 influenza and the European Registry - Jean-Daniel Chiche, Paris, FR
Pattern Recognition in Early and Late Bacterial Sepsis - Tom van der Poll, Amsterdam, NL
Presentation by Dr. Tom Sprong for best Sepsis Abstract at ECCMID
Dr Sprong was born 1975 in Hertogenbosch, TheNetherlands;
Internist, Infectious diseases specialist at the Department of Medicine,
Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Postdoctoral
Researcher at the Department of Medicine and Institute for Infection,
Inflammation and Immunology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in recognition of his excellent abstract submitted
for presentation at the 20th ECCMID 2010.
Dr Sprong gave a short oral presentation titled 'Genetic
analysis of pattern recognition receptors link a functional poly morphism in the
gene for CD14 to susceptibility for meningococcal septic shock' at the Sepsis
Forum on Saturday, 10 April 2010.
Research Interests
Dr Sprong's research interests are host-pathogen and
pathogenhost interactions targeting the innate immune system and bacterial
infections. For his PhD studies he has been working on meningococcal disease,
unravelling the pathogenesis of this disease in multiple different ways: in
vitro studies determining cytokine and complement activation by bacteria;
in vivo studies, investigating cytokines, complement activation and other
markers in patients with infection; and molecular genetic studies. This has led
to a cum laude dissertation in 2009. In addition, Dr Sprong has also
participated in research on other aspects of infectious diseases (such as
malaria, Bartonella infections, Gram-negative infectious diseases] and
immunology (hypogammaglobulinaemia, Crohn's disease, rheumatology, inflammatory
responses after cardiac surgery and atrial fibrillation]. At this moment he is
continuing his research on meningococcal disease and developing new research
lines in Staphylococcus aureus, Q-fever and pneumococcal infections.
ISF Joint Session with ESICM 2010
Barcelona, Spain
Manipulating the Response in Sepsis is Harmful
PRO: M. Singer, London, UK
CON: J. Marshall, Toronto, CDA
Volume Resuscitation in Septic Shock- The Type of Fluid does not Matter
PRO: J-L. Vincent, Brussels, BE
CON: K. Reinhart, Jena, DE
Hemodynamic Monitoring In Septic Shock- An Arterial and Central Venous LIne are Enough
PRO: D. Angus, Pittsburgh, US
CON: C. Sprung, Israel, JE
Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC)
The ISF has collaborated with the European Society
of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the Society of Critical Care
Medicine (SCCM) on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC). The mission
of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign is to raise awareness of Sepsis and to
reduce the mortality of Sepsis.
Click here to go the SSC website.
InFACT- The International Forum for Acute Care Trialists
A number of investigator-led research consortia met in Granada Spain in November
2008 to explore ways they might better collaborate to advance investigator-led
clinical research in critical care. Over the past two decades, a number of
investigator-led research consortia have emerged around the world, and have
assumed a pre-eminent role in shaping the landscape of critical care research.
The meeting was an exploratory one to identify areas where we might
develop ongoing collaborative activities. InFACT held a launch meeting during ISICEM,
in March 2010.
Global Sepsis Alliance
The world Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS), the ISF and the Sepsis Alliance (SA) have recognized the need to elevate public, philanthropic and governmental awareness and the understanding of sepsis and have come together to form the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), and
an inaugural meeting was held on March 8, 2010 in Brussels, Belgium.
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05/13/2010
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