Welcome to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), an initiative of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the International Sepsis Forum, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, was developed to improve the management, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis. The agreement among the three societies and funding for the campaign came to a conclusion on December 31, 2008 (view final newsletter). This website and the database remain as resources. This unprecedented global effort to reduce death from sepsis was accomplished through the guidance and support of the three collaborating societies and their members. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement worked with campaign leadership to lend expertise in reinforcing the campaign as a quality improvement initiative.

The SSC aimed to reduce mortality from sepsis via a multi-point strategy, primarily:

  • Building awareness of sepsis
  • Improving diagnosis
  • Increasing the use of appropriate treatment
  • Educating healthcare professionals
  • Improving post-ICU care
  • Developing guidelines of care
  • Facilitating data collection for the purposes of audit and feedback
While the campaign has officially concluded, this web site will remain an active resource through 2011 to provide information and resources for patients, healthcare professionals, and the general public. Ongoing support for hospitals who need assistance in implementing the bundles may obtain that support in the US through SCCM's Paragon program. Worldwide, a community of colleagues is available by using the campaign list serve. Click on the "Join the Community" tab on this homepage to subscribe or unsubscribe to the list serve at any time. The SSC database can be directly downloaded from this site by clicking on the manual/database tab. Discs are available; however, shipping charges will apply. Please note that complete instructions have been provided for installation and use of the database including how to print reports and what to do when installing the system on a network. Limited support for the database is available by sending an email to info@survivingsepsis.org. Hospitals interested in growing the database as a benchmarking opportunity should continue to submit data to the central database.