World World Sepsis Day is held on September 13th every year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against sepsis. Sepsis accounts for at least 11 million deaths worldwide annually.
Chaired by Professor Manu Shankar-Hari, Chair of Translational Critical Care Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, this hour long webinar features discussion and debate with Dr Hallie Prescott, Associate Professor
in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine from the University of Michigan and Dr Andrew Conway Morris, MRC Clinician Scientist at the University
of Cambridge.
The webinar is kindly supported by an educational grant from bioMérieux.
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Time
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Title of
Talk
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Faculty
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1:00-1:05
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Welcome and Introduction
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Dr Manu Shankar-Hari
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1:05-1:25
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Rapid antibiotics for sepsis:
saving lives or driving overuse?
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Dr Hallie Prescott
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1:25-1:45
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COVID therapeutics, what do they (not) tell
us about bacterial sepsis?
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Dr Andrew Conway
Morris
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1:45-2:00
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Discussion and Q&A
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All
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Zoom links will be sent to all participants a few days prior to the session and on the day itself.