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Society of Critical Care Medicine to Hold Writers Workshop on Diagnosis, Treatment
and Management of Sepsis
DES PLAINES, Ill., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of Critical Care
Medicine will hold a Writers Workshop on the Diagnosis, Treatment and
Management of Sepsis on Friday, June 28, 2002 from 8:00 am to 10:30 am at the
Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston Hotel in Boston, Mass.
Every year severe sepsis (sepsis associated with acute organ dysfunction)
strikes 750,000 Americans, at least 215,000 of whom die, about as many as die
as a result of an acute heart attack. By the end of the decade, the incidence
of severe sepsis is expected to rise to 1 million. Severe sepsis is the
leading cause of death in non-coronary intensive care units. The estimated
costs associated with the treatment of patients with severe sepsis are
$17 billion annually in the United States.
Sepsis is a bacterial infection of the blood that is often a complication
of burns, surgery or illness. Patients developing sepsis progress from ill to
seriously ill, onto organ dysfunction and failure (called severe sepsis) and
then to septic shock.
The Workshop will include presentations by internationally renowned
specialists and interview opportunities with persons who have survived sepsis.
Please contact either Lisa Doty at 847/827-7298, ldoty@sccm.org or Katie
Lundberg at 847/827-7502, klundberg@sccm.org for further information or to be
included on the event mailing list.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine ( sccm.org )is the leading
professional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in
the practice of critical care medicine. With over 10,000 members worldwide,
the Society is the only professional organization devoted exclusively to the
advancement of multidisciplinary, multiprofessional intensive care through
excellence in patient care, professional education, public education, research
and advocacy. Members of the Society include intensivists, critical care
nurses, critical care pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists, respiratory care
practitioners and other professionals with an interest in critical care, which
may include physicians assistants, social workers, dieticians, and members of
the clergy.
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Would be a bit too much to expect Baxter to say anything at this conference but they did say more news shortly on development (pipeline). |
