Activities and Meetings...

New Activities
Poster Awards- The ISF will be providing awards for the best poster on Sepsis at various International Conferences. More detail will be made available on this site in the future.

Sepsis 2008 - November 2008, Granada, Spain

ISF 7th Annual Colloquium on Systems Biology and Molecular Diagnostics in Sepsis.  May 2008, Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC

ECCMID/ISF Joint Symposium

 


Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC)
The ISF is collaborating 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.



Sepsis 2007, An International Symposium at the occasion of the 10th year anniversary of the International Sepsis Forum
This International Symposium was an open meeting for all healthcare providers interested in the Sepsis area.  The meeting wwas held at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. 

Additional Information on Sepsis 2007



Management Strategies in Sepsis
The development of guidelines on management of patients with severe sepsis was given high priority by the ISF. The main findings were published as practical guidelines to patient management in Intensive Care Medicine and were presented at the Society of Critical Care annual meeting in February 2001.


Summary Guidelines:
Recently the SSC updated the Management Strategies publication into new treatment guidelines in severe sepsis.  This summary publication is available as a .PDF file here.  It is featured in a poster and brochure format on the Avant-Go ISF channel.



1st International Sepsis Forum on Sepsis in Infants and Children:
This closed meeting was organized by the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigative (PALISI) network and the ISF. It was sponsored by the Mannion Family Fund, The Center for the Critically Ill Child, Division of Critical Care Network, Childrens Hospital Boston, The Palisi Network and the ISF. September 2004.  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2005 Vol.6/no.3.S1-S164.  Click here for dowloadable articles.



Shock Society/ISF Symposium:
A closed symposium jointly sponsored by the Shock Society and the ISF on the Translation Biology of Acute Illness: Pre-Clinical Models of Shock, Trauma & Sepsis.  The meeting was held at Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2004.  Shock Vol. 24, Supplement 1, 2005



Consensus Conference on Infection Definitions in the ICU:
Program Chairs: Jonathan Cohen, UK and Thierry Calandra, CH

This closed conference was held in Coral Gables, FL.  Click here to view the program in PDF format.  Consensus Conference  Critical Care Medicine 2005, Vol.33/no.7. 1538/1548



This page last updated 10/02/2007