2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Adult Guidelines: Chat with the Authors
Includes a Live Web Event on 04/09/2026 at 8:00 AM (PDT)
Description:
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET / 8:00 - 9:00 am PT
Have questions about the new 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Adult Guidelines? Don’t miss this chance to chat with some of the clinicians responsible for these updates.
Join the authors of the 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) Adult Guidelines for a conversational chat highlighting the latest updates to the global recommendations. The session will begin with a brief overview of how the multidisciplinary, internationally representative panels developed the new guidelines. Faculty will then outline the most significant changes since 2021 and the evidence that informed those updates. The discussion will focus on how the revised recommendations shape early recognition and management of sepsis and septic shock across diverse care settings. Practical insights on applying the guidelines, including considerations for low‑resource environments, will help participants translate the updates into everyday practice.
There will also be ample time for audience questions during the live session.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the activity, the learner should be able to:
- Describe the development process for the 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) Adult Guidelines, including how multidisciplinary and global perspectives informed the recommendations;
- Interpret the updated recommendations and their implications for early recognition and management of sepsis and septic shock across diverse clinical settings;
- Apply practical strategies for implementing the guideline updates in everyday practice, including considerations for adapting care in low‑resource environments;
- Identify key updates and changes from the 2021 guidelines and the evidence that shaped these revisions.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Division of Pulmonary Critical Care
University of Michigan
Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care within Michigan Medicine and a Staff Physician at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She is the physician lead on the HMS Sepsis and Mi-COVID19 Initiatives. Hallie completed medical school, residency, and chief residency at Ohio State University, and fellowship and Masters in Health Services Research at the University of Michigan. She is interested in sepsis, performance measurement, and long-term outcomes after critical illness. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines, as a council member of the International Sepsis Forum, and on the advisory board of Sepsis Alliance.
Laura Evans, MD, MSc
Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine; Medical Director, Critical Care
University of Washington Medical Center
Laura Evans, MD, MSc, is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington and the Medical Director of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her interests focus on sepsis and preparedness for high-consequence infectious diseases, particularly on guideline development and implementation, as well as patient safety/quality improvement.
Dr. Evans earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan and did her residency in internal medicine at Columbia University. She completed pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship training and earned a Master of Science in epidemiology at the University of Washington. She then joined the New York University and Bellevue Hospital faculty in 2006. In her role there, she led the evacuation of the Bellevue Hospital intensive care units in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. She was the clinical lead for New York City’s only patient with Ebola. She was associate program director for the pulmonary and critical care fellowship program at NYU for more than 10 years. After 14 years in NYC, she returned to Seattle in 2019.
She joined the steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) in 2012 and was the co-chair of the past two revisions of the SSC adult sepsis guidelines and SSC COVID management guidelines co-chair. She also served as the critical care team lead for the National Institutes of Health COVID Management Guidelines. She is the current chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Critical Care Medicine specialty board.
Nicholas Mohr, MD, MS
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia Critical Care, and Epidemiology
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Nick Mohr, MD, MS, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia Critical Care, and Epidemiology and the Vice Chair for Emergency Care Research at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Mohr is interested in rural health, sepsis systems of care, and emergency telemedicine, and his research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Veterans Administration Office of Rural Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Joanna Lejnieks, MSN, RN, CCRN
Sepsis Program Manager
Hoag Hospital
Sepsis Alliance is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Sepsis Alliance designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.2 contact hours.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.0 contact hours.
All individuals in control of content for this activity disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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