Thanks, Mary Ann. All the best, Mitchell
On 9/3/13 5:53 PM, "Mary Daly" <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations Drs. Rhodes and Levy; this is indeed an IMPRESSive undertaking > > > Thanks, > > Mary Ann Daly, RN BSN CCRN DC > Regional Clinical Initiative Lead-Sepsis and ICU Liberation (ABCDE) > Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant > Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region > E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Blackberry: 916.200.5604 Office: 916.614.6370 > ? > You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, > build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster > Fuller > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lori Harmon > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Important Announcement - IMPRESS study to be > conducted > > Colleagues, > > The Surviving Sepsis Campaign will conduct a point prevalence study, the > International Multicentre PREvalence Study on Sepsis > <http://impress-ssc.com/> (IMPRESS), on November 7, 2013, to better understand > the global burden of severe sepsis and septic shock in adult patients. > Conducted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of > Intensive Care Medicine, under the framework of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, > IMPRESS aims to help clinicians and researchers better understand the global > burden of sepsis. De-identified patient-level data will be collected on > patients presenting to a participating intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency > department with severe sepsis or septic shock within a 24-hour period, > midnight to midnight on November 7, 2013. Data collected as part of routine > clinical care, including hospital and ICU characteristics, patient > characteristics, severity of illness, adherence to Surviving Sepsis Campaign > bundle elements, and mortality, will be used for this study. > > Led by investigators Andrew Rhodes, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM, and Mitchell M. Levy, > MD, FCCM, the study will reveal important information that is currently > lacking on the incidence of severe sepsis and septic shock throughout the > world. These data will help inform the next steps toward improvement, as well > as provide insights into the number of people who lose their lives to this > illness. > > Interested hospitals from all countries are encouraged to visit > www.impress-ssc.com/ <http://www.impress-ssc.com/> for further details or to > register for the study. Instructions and information on institutional review > board approvals will be forthcoming. On behalf of the Surviving Sepsis > Campaign, I extend an encouraging word to your team to mark this date and plan > to participate in this very important groundbreaking event. > > Best, > > Lori A. Harmon, RRT, MBA > Director, Program Development > Society of Critical Care Medicine > 500 Midway Drive > Mount Prospect, IL 60056 > O +1-847-493-6403 > F +1-847-493-6428 > [email protected] > http://www.sccm.org <http://www.sccm.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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