News

Read news stories from our cluster below, and keep up to date by following @ActionOnSepsis on Twitter.

April 26, 2022

An open data initiative for optimizing the re-use of clinical data to improve maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes

Congratulations to Dr Mark Ansermino, Dr Niranjan Kissoon, Dr Matthew Wiens, Dr Gina Ogilvie, Dr Srinivas Murthy, Gurm Dhugga, Maggie Woo Kinshella, and Jessica Trawin! The team from the Pediatric Sepsis Data CoLaboratory (Sepsis CoLab), the Centre for International Child Health (CICH) at BC...

March 3, 2022

BC Adult Emergency Department Adult Sepsis Guidelines – 2022 Update

BC's Sepsis Clinical Expert Working Group has updated the the BC Emergency Department Adult Sepsis Guidelines, taking into account the most up-to-date literature and expert opinion. Visit the BC Sepsis Network's website to view the guidelines, algorithm, and comparision to the 2017 guidelines, or...

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January 18, 2022

Machine learning and AI used to rapidly detect sepsis, cutting risk of death dramatically

By UBC News A groundbreaking advance in quickly detecting sepsis using machine learning has been pioneered by researchers in the Hancock Lab and the department of microbiology and immunology at UBC. Sepsis is one of the biggest killers in the world, responsible for one in five deaths worldwide...

December 1, 2021

Smart Discharges and the Ugandan Ministry of Health works towards an integrated and interoperable health information system

By The Centre for International Child Health The Smart Discharges team has entered into a partnership with Malaria Consortium, a non-profit organization working to implement a national Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) program in Uganda that reports to the Ministry of Health's Community...

October 25, 2021

Return on Investment through a province-wide, sepsis-targeted QI initiative in British Columbia

A new study recently published in Critical Care Medicine has shown that the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council (BCPSQC)’s investment in the BC Sepsis Network (BCSN) has led to savings of $50.6 million, representing a return of over $112 for every dollar invested. In 2017, sepsis led to 1 in...

September 7, 2021

Implementing a Pediatric Sepsis Toolkit across British Columbia

In Canada, one in every 18 deaths was estimated to be cause by sepsis (2017). Young children are among those who are most vulnerable to and most likely to die from sepsis. Sepsis occurs when the body’s response to infection begins to damage its own tissues and organs. It can be life-threatening if...

June 21, 2021

Publication Spotlight - Acute Cardiac Injury in Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Viral Infections—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

What was done? Understanding what causes organ injury during severe infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, is key to developing new treatments that can prevent death and disability. In patients with COVID-19, the virus is able to enter and infect many of the body’s cells by binding the protein...

March 26, 2021

Action on Sepsis is awarded GCRC support as an established cluster until 2023

The Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition was jointly created by UBC's Office of the Vice President, Research & Innovation (VPRI) and the Provost & Vice-President, Academic to enable the formation and growth of interdisciplinary research excellence clusters. Last month...

March 8, 2021

International Women's Day: Spotlight on Dr Liisa Holsti

Dr. Liisa Holsti 's research focuses on ways to optimize the neurodevelopment of infants and children. Dr. Holsti is a faculty member of the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. She trained in Rehabilitation Medicine, received her M.A. in measurement and statistics, and a Ph...

January 22, 2021

Une pétition en tant que citoyen auprès du Gouv. du Canada pour fournir une mise à jour concernant un Plan d’Action sur la Résistance aux Antimicrobiens est maintenant ouverte aux signatures

Nous vous demandons votre soutien avec la signature d'une pétition en tant que citoyen afin d’encourager le Gouvernement Canadien à émettre un Plan d’Action Final sur la Résistance aux Antimicrobiens. La Résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est un des problèmes importants de notre temps touchant la...

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