Announcement of the Novel Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria

Sunday, January 21, 2024

10:30 AM – 12:45 PM MT

Location: West-301D

CE: 2.0

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

R Watson, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
Luregn Schlapbach, MD, PhD, Prof.

Head Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology
University Children's Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

This session will introduce Pediatric Sepsis 3.0, a contemporary, data-driven, consensus-derived, internationally applicable definition of pediatric sepsis, formulated by a multiprofessional, multinational, SCCM-sponsored task force.

Congress features sessions on a record-breaking number of new journal articles, guidelines, and research from SCCM and other leading medical journals. Find details here.

Learning Objectives:

Outline the elements of the Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria
Review the history of pediatric sepsis definitions
Analyze what international pediatric clinicians expect in a definition of pediatric sepsis
Analyze the challenges of operationalizing a global contemporary pediatric sepsis definition
Examine data and rigorous consensus supporting the new definition of pediatric sepsis

Presentations:

Introduction and Project Overview
Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis: A Historic Perspective Provided by Systematic Review
What Pediatric Clinicians Expect in a Pediatric Sepsis Definition
Development and Validation of the Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria
Stakeholder Consensus and Controversies in Development of the New Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis Criteria
Operationalizing a Sepsis Definition for Children: Think Globally but Act Locally
Discussion