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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.

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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

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ISICEM 2010, 9-12 March

ISF is endorsing the International Symposium for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) Brussels, March 2010

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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

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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.

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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

 

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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.

ISF News

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.

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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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This page last updated 05/13/2010

 
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