Kalra Hospital collaborated with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines team to present the 1st Annual Critical Care Surviving Sepsis (ACCSS) Consortium held in New Delhi, India on December 10-11, 2011.

The conference featured the following international, and national faculty:

• R Phillip Dellinger MD, FCCP, FCCM
  Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  Vice Chief, Department of Medicine
  Head, Division of Critical Care Medicine
  Cooper University Hospital
  Camden, NJ
  United States
   
• Mitchell M. Levy MD, FCCP, FCCM
  Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
  Rhode Island Hospital
  Providence, RI
  United States
   
• Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni MD, FCCM
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  Director, Fellowship Training Program
  Division of Critical Care Medicine
  Cooper University Hospital
  Camden, NJ
  United States
   
• Nitin Puri, MD
  Medical Intensivist
  Inova Fairfax Hospital
  Falls Church, VA
  United States

• Eric Flenaugh, MD
  Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critlcal Care Medicine
  Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
  Morehouse School of Medicine
  Atlanta, GA
  United States

• Christa A. Schorr MSN, FCCM
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  Lead Nurse, Surviving Sepsis Campaign Performance Improvement Program
  Director of Databases for Quality Improvement and Research
  Program Director of Critical Care Clinical Trials
  Department of Medicine
  Cooper University Hospital
  Camden, NJ
  United States

• Randeep Guleria MD, DM
  Professor of Medicine
  All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
  New Delhi, India

Photographs Slide Show Day 1 (December 10, 2011)

The consortium witnessed the following world class lectures by the experts:

Day 1

SIRS, Sepsis, Septic Shock and Semantics:
Where we came from and where we are
Dr. R. Phillip Dellinger

Surviving Sepsis Guidelines (SSG):
How care for septic patients has changed
Dr. Mitchell M. Levy

Sepsis in India: Epidemiology and evidence
Dr. Randeep Guleria

Pathophysiology of Septic Shock: The role of lactate and ScvO2
Dr. Eric Flenaugh

Current Concepts in Management of Sepsis:
Hemodynamic support and fluid resuscitation
Dr. Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni

Developing a Database for Sepsis Patients
Christa A. Schorr

Day 2

Economics of Sepsis in India and USA
Dr. Mitchell M. Levy & Dr. Randeep Guleria

Antibiotics and Sepsis
Dr. Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni

Adjunct Therapies for Septic Shock: Steroids and activated protein C
Dr. Nitin Puri

The Sepsis Team
Christa A. Schorr

Sepsis-induced Acute Lung Injury
Dr. R. Phillip Dellinger