Vantive Sponsored Webinar: The Hidden Driver of Sepsis: Exploring Endotoxins and Endotoxic Septic Shock
Includes a Live Web Event on 10/28/2026 at 11:00 AM (PDT)
Webinar Description:
What role do endotoxins play in the development of severe sepsis and septic shock? In this sponsored webinar, Pat Posa will examine the science behind endotoxins and their contribution to the overwhelming inflammatory response seen in critically ill patients. Attendees will learn how endotoxins influence disease severity, why some patients progress to septic shock, and what clinicians need to know to support early recognition and treatment.
No CE credits are offered for this sponsored webinar. Content was determined by the sponsor.
Webinar Sponsor:
Sepsis Alliance gratefully acknowledges the support provided by Vantive for this sponsored webinar.
Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, FAAN
Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager
UH/CVC, Michigan Medicine
Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN, FAAN, is the Quality and Safety Program Manager for the Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS) providing clinical oversight for the quality improvement work. She most recently was the Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager for the Adult Hospitals at Michigan Medicine. In that role she was responsible for development, measurement, and sustainability of the Adult Hospitals’ Quality and Patient Safety program.
Previously, Pat was a Quality Excellence Leader for St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Southeastern Michigan leading initiatives to reduce hospital acquired conditions, improve patient outcomes for critically ill patients, and reduce readmissions.
Pat received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University and her Masters in Administration from Central Michigan University. Pat has a strong interest in sepsis and critical care.
Over her 46 years in practice, Pat has held various roles in healthcare in the hospital, ambulatory setting, and health plan, including manager of inpatient critical care units, Director of Nursing, and administrator of an outpatient multispecialty/primary care clinic.
Pat has been involved in many quality and patient safety programs such as, hospital and system wide sepsis management programs and a statewide Keystone ICU patient safety initiative. She has been faculty for multiple state and national clinical collaboratives including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Phase IV Collaborative, the national project on Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) for Mechanically Ventilated Patients, and Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Liberation Collaborative. Pat has been a member and co-chair of SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee. Through Pat’s leadership, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was awarded the HHS/Critical Care Societies Outstanding Leadership in Eliminating CLABSI and VAP in 2011. She was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2013. Pat was also awarded the Michigan Hospital Association Quality and Patient Safety Leadership Award in 2017.
Pat has published many articles in both clinical and quality journals. She lectures and consults extensively nationally on sepsis, various critical care, patient safety, and quality topics.