United Against Sepsis 2025

Start:

Tue, 9 Sep 2025, 09:00

End:

Tue, 9 Sep 2025, 06:00

Website:

https://iii.hm/uas2025

Venue:

Exhibit

Symposia

Workshops

Organiser

Sponsor

Objectives

To raise awareness about sepsis and its impact on patients, families, and healthcare systems

To encourage collaboration between patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers

To enhance mutual understanding between patients and healthcare professionals, from the challenges between different competing priorities to urgent patient needs

To share knowledge and best practices in prevention, early recognition, treatment and recovery

To amplify the voices of patients and families, and to promote patient-centered care

To educate the general public on sepsis, sepsis prevention and sepsis recognition

To empower healthcare professionals with tools for sepsis recognition

What to expect

This event offers a dynamic program filled with engaging talks, personal testimonials, panel discussions and networking opportunities. Participants can expect an open dialogue between those directly affected by sepsis and those on the frontlines of care. Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to inspiring stories from sepsis survivors and bereaved families as well as insights from healthcare professionals committed to improving outcomes and saving lives.

Participants: healthcare professionals, patients, bereaved families, policy makers and journalists

Why is sepsis important?

Every year sepsis affects 3 million people in the European Union alone. And yet this terrible figure does not get to the headlines. Sepsis is the most severe complication of infection, and a leading cause of preventable deaths and disability in Europe. Every minute more than one person dies of sepsis in Europe and three-quarters of survivors suffer long-term sequelae. Sepsis can affect people at any age. Vaccination, clean care, early recognition and treatment of infection, are key to preventing sepsis.

What is sepsis ?

Sepsis is the body’s extreme reaction to an infection.

Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency caused by the body’s overwhelming response to an infection. Without urgent treatment, it can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and even death. When someone has an infection, the immune system works to try to resist it. But sometimes the immune system responds dysregulated to the infection and starts damaging normal tissues and organs.

ESICM and sepsis

Together with SCCM-Society of Critical Care Medicine, the ESICM organizes the leading guideline for managing sepsis at every stage. Currently a new update of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines is under development and will be released early 2026.