BD DAYS - Sepsis

6 September 2019 - Eysins, Switzerland

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to BD European headquarters near Geneva.


Tackling sepsis together

We are delighted to welcome you to the BD DAYS Patient Safety symposia series, designed to raise awareness and foster collaboration on key patient safety concerns.

For this inaugural event, timed to coordinate with World Sepsis Day activities, we are inviting healthcare leaders from around the region to meet and share their sepsis-related experiences and learning.

Join the conversation at dinner the evening of 5 September (7:00 p.m.) and a full-day meeting on Friday, 6 September


We welcome you to BD European Headquarters in Eysins, Switzerland - approximately 20 minutes east of Geneva Airport.

Plan to join us for a group dinner the evening prior, 5 September, at 7:00 p.m. Friday’s sessions will run from 8:45 to 4:30.

Our local representative will contact you directly about travel arrangements and hotel accommodations.

PROGRAM: explore, exchange, experience

The BD Days - Sepsis event features leaders from healthcare institutions and associations together with patients and public policy officials to collaborate on solutions to sepsis challenges.

Through panels, presentations and case studies selected speakers will explore what actions have been successful, including the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach in sepsis management and reducing time to diagnosis and treatment.

Extended networking breaks are included to allow you to exchange with each other and BD solutions experts throughout the day.

Topics of the day:

  • A patient’s perspective
  • Public policy across regional healthcare systems
  • Drivers and barriers of effective sepsis management
  • Caring for patients across the care continuum
  • Best practice sepsis protocols
  • Innovations in sepsis research
  • Experience BD via the Innovation and Engagement Center
08:45 – 09:00 Welcome:
Roland Goette, BD Executive Vice President, President EMEA
Stephen Church, BD Clinical Director, Medication Delivery Solutions
09:00 – 09:15 A patient's perspective:
Dave Carson, sepsis survivor
09:15 – 10:00 Sepsis in Europe: public policy across health care systems
Moderator Jose Luis Gomez, BD Vice President Public Policy Europe
Konrad Reinhart, President, Global Sepsis Alliance
Melina Raso, Executive Director, Health First Europe, GSA
Ron Daniels, CEO, UK Sepsis Trust
Giulio Toccafondi, Patient Safety & Quality Manager, Centre for Clinical Risk Management, Tuscany, Italy
Dr Ricard Ferrer, Head of the Intensive Care Department, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, and Chairman of the ESICM Systemic Inflammation and Sepsis section, President of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care
10:00 – 10:30 Case study: Italian Consensus Paper + Q&A
Prof Giovanni Gherardi, PhD, Clinical Pathology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Associate Professor and deputy Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Microbiology and Virology of the Faculty of Medicine Rome, Italy
10:30 – 11:10 Coffee break and Innovation & Engagement Centre opening
11:10 – 11:50 Case Study: Time to Detection of Sepsis + Q&A
Dr Ricard Ferrer, Head of the Intensive Care Department, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, and Chairman of the ESICM Systemic Inflammation and Sepsis section, President of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care
11:50 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:00 Panel: drivers and barriers of effective sepsis management
Moderator Fiona Garin, BD Senior Director, Strategic Marketing Europe
Dr Eduardo Palencia Herrejón, Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Dr Jose Miguel Cisneros Herreros, Coordinator of the PIRASOA Sepsis Program, Andalusia, Spain
Dr Adam Linder, MD, PhD, associate professor and senior consultant, Lund Univeristy Hospital, Lund, Sweden
14:00 – 14:40 Institutional impact: caring for sepsis patients across the care continuum
Dr Matthew Inada Kim, Consultant acute physician, Hampshire Hospitals, National Clinical Lead - Deterioration, NHS Improvement, National Clinical Advisor - Sepsis, NHS England and Health Education England
14:40 – 15:10 Tea break and Innovation & Engagement Centre opening
15:10 – 15:50 Sepsis as organ and health system dysfunction:
PD Dr. Med. Dr. Phil. Petra Dickmann, MA, University Hospital Jena, Germany
15:50 – 16:15 Looking ahead: Innovation in Sepsis Research
Fernand Goldblat, Vice President and General Manager, BD Diagnostic Systems Europe
16:15 – 16:30 Wrap up and Challenge
16:30 Departure

Explore

Exchange

Experience

We appreciate your participation and look forward to inspirational sessions.

Register now!