The 2024 WSC Spotlight has concluded – thank you all for joining.

All sessions were recorded and will be made available on YouTube and as a podcast, starting with the Opening Session on May 7.

The certificate of attendance will be available on May 7, together with the Opening Session. You will be informed via email and this website.

CME credits will be available at the end of May/early June, once the accreditation body has concluded their assessment. We’ll keep you posted.


Throughout 9 distinctive sessions, globally renowned clinicians, researchers, experts, and thought leaders covered the need for early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in surgical patients, data, AI, and predictive modeling in sepsis, how hypervolemia increases the mortality rate in sepsis, the role of biomarkers, detecting sepsis in ventilated patients, pediatric sepsis, including the new ‘Phoenix Criteria’, as well as personalized approaches to sepsis management.


Welcome Remarks from Louise Thwaites and Michael Wong, Program Chairs

As we navigate through uncertain times – especially in global health – it is crucial to come together as a community and exchange insights, share experiences, and forge innovations for responding to the global challenge of sepsis, which continues to affect 48.9 million children, women, and men every year and remains associated with 1 in every 5 deaths worldwide…


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