Sepsis, Severe Infections and Stewardship pathway – Kick off webinar

Join us on Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
The ESICM Sepsis, Severe Infections and Stewardship dynamic educational pathway is designed to take participants from foundational knowledge to expert-level practice. With a blended approach that combines self-learning, interactive teaching, and hands-on practice, this programme equips you with skills to tackle the challenges of sepsis and severe infections effectively.
This kick-off webinar marks the beginning of this educational journey. Core faculty members and founders of the pathway—representing diverse disciplines—will introduce the programme, outline its objectives, and inspire participants to embark on this learning experience.
Programme
16:00 Welcome and faculty introduction by Andrew CONWAY MORRIS and Jan DE WAELE
16:05 Presentation of the learning pathway by Andrew CONWAY MORRIS
16:15 The burden of infection and sepsis in ICU by Liesbet DE BUS
16:22 Sepsis – a (very) brief introduction by Ricard FERRER
16:29 Infection – the challenge of diagnosis by Anna WLUDARCZYK
16:36 Antibiotic therapy – powerful tool with major risks by Claire ROGER
16:43 Antibiotic prescribing – a cooks tour of the key consideration by Cathrine MCKENZIE
16:50 Sepsis, infection and stewardship – the ICU nurse’s role by Elsa AFONSO
16:57 Antimicrobial (and diagnostic) Stewardship – its everyone’s business by Jan DE WAELE
17:04 Faculty discussion
17:15 Next steps and Conclusions by Andrew CONWAY MORRIS and Claire ROGER
Experts
Elsa AFONSO
Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK).
Andrew CONWAY MORRIS
MRC Clinician Scientist, University of Cambridge; Honorary Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge (UK). Chair, ESICM Infection Section
Liesbet DE BUS
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent (BE).
Jan DE WAELE
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital and Associate Professor in Medicine at Ghent University, Ghent (BE); Sr. Clinical Investigator – FWO – Research Foundation Flanders. ESICM President.
Ricard FERRER
Department Head of Intensive Care, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital; Head of Group SODIR, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research, Barcelona (SP)
Cathrine MCKENZIE
Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care, Pharmacy and Critical Care, University Hospital Southampton (UK). Visiting Research Fellow, University of Southampton, School of Medicine (UK); Editor in Chief: Critical Illness; Lead ESICM ICU pharmacy professionals working group.
Claire ROGER
Head of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Nimes University Hospital, Nimes (FR).
Anna WŁUDARCZYK
Department of Intensive Therapy and Anesthesiology, 5th Military Clinical Hospital, Kraków (PL).
The programme is supported by a grant from bioMérieux.
The programme has not been influenced in any way by its sponsor.