United Against Sepsis

• 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

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

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.

References: Global Sepsis Alliance The 2030 global agenda for 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.

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.

The event has been endorsed by Global Sepsis Alliance, European Sepsis Alliance, Sepsis Stiftung, Irish Sepsis Foundation, Sepsis en Daarna, the UK Sepsis Trust, Sepsisföreningen, Sepsisinof.es, Asociación Española Contra la Meningitis, Stop Sepsis Asociación Guillem C.G, Sepsisfonden, Sepsis Nederland, Comprehensive Sepsis Center.