World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) was established in 1977 and is a membership organization comprised of National Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. The principle objective of the World Federation is to promote the highest standards of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine for all mankind, without discrimination. The WFSICCM now has a membership of over 55 Societies with a combined individual membership of over 55,000 intensive and critical care practitioners throughout the world.

The World Federation is governed by an elected Council of 16 members each of whom serve a term of office of 8 years. The leadership of the organisation is provided by an Executive Committee comprised of the President, Secretary General and Treasurer. The organisation is headquartered near London, UK where all support functions are provided by an Executive Director. Council would normally meet on two occasions each year.

In seeking to promote the highest standards of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine for all mankind without discrimination, there is an increasing recognition that we have a growing responsibility to foster international collaboration in intensive and critical medicine because of the growing international focus of disease. Disease knows no international boundaries. We want to be the global organization that can facilitate and enable collaborative efforts in research, training and education to raise standards of care and improve outcomes for patients.

World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

The World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) was established in 1997. It arose from the vision of several world leader in the field of Pediatric Critical Care who saw the opportunity to combine international expertise, experience and influence to improve the outcomes of children suffering from life threatening illness and injury.

WFPICCS is committed to a global environment in which all children have access to intensive and critical care of the highest standard. With this in mind, WFPICCS has defined its mission as exclusively educational, scientific and charitable in nature. It exists to find ways of improving the care of critically ill children throughout the world, and make that knowledge available to those who care for the children.

WFPICCS, a not-for-profit Federation, continues to take care of critically sick children and their families by reaching out and collaborating internationally with pediatric and neonatal critical care professionals.

For further information please visit our website at www.wfpiccs.org

International Sepsis Forum

The International Sepsis Forum (ISF) is a unique collaborative effort between  industry and academia. It is the first initiative to focus solely on management  of patients with severe sepsis. While sepsis and its sequelae are still  associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, new data on patient  management are emerging that may ultimately significantly improve the current  situation. Such findings need to be evaluated and incorporated, when  appropriate, into existing treatment protocols. Headed by a Council of  international experts and opinion leaders, the ISF is focused exclusively on  improving the management of sepsis and, in particular, septic shock by  developing an international consensus on the latest understanding of key  scientific and clinical issues, and disseminating emerging practice guidelines  to researchers, intensivists, and other critical care professionals worldwide.

Sepsis Alliance

Sepsis Alliance is a US-based 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to the deployment of a global system supporting education, early recognition, and effective treatment. Through a combination of public awareness campaigning and advocacy of treatment of sepsis as an emergency, requiring administration of fluids and antibiotics based upon the suspicion of sepsis, SA seeks to increase awareness and reduce mortality by 25% over the next three years.

World Federation of Critical Care Nurses

The World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN) exists to provide a global forum and network to link the critical care nurses of the world as individual practitioners, and through their local and national professional associations. The WFCCN was formally endorsed by 70 critical care nurses from 15 different countries at a meeting of nurses during the 8th World Congress on Intensive Care in Sydney Australia. At this meeting, they developed and endorsed a constitution to form the WFCCN, following several years of informal dialogue and networking. Currently, 39 country critical care nursing associations, representing over 400,000 critical care nurses, belong to WFCCN. Among its numerous accomplishments in promoting best care practices and optimal outcomes for acute and critically ill patients, the WFCCN completed work on the publication "Nursing considerations to complement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign" by Aitken LM. et al. which was published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Critical Care Medicine.

American Thoracic Society

Anzics Clinical Trials Group

Formed in 1975 the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society is the peak professional body representing Intensive Care specialist physicians in Australia and New Zealand. It was one of the first such organisations worldwide. The Society has been instrumental in championing the cause of what was at the time a new specialty, Intensive Care Medicine. The Society can now boast to be world leaders in Intensive Care research through the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, and to administer the largest Intensive Care patient database in the world. The Society is devoted to all aspects of intensive care medical practice through ongoing professional education, provision of leadership in medical settings, clinical research and analysis of critical care resources.

Belize Medical and Dental Association

Belize Medical and Dental Association aims and objectives include: To compile a comprehensive directory of physicians and dentists residing in Belize. To promote the interest of physicians and dentists in Belize. To support physicians and dentists, as well as other brilliant and deserving professionals pursuing their careers in those fields or any other fields in Belize and else where.

Centre for International Child Health

The Centre for International Child Health (CICH) was created in 2004 to serve as a leader and coordinating body for international child health initiatives at the BC Children's Hospital and the University of British Columbia. The objectives of CICH are to 1) focus and support the international activities of child health professionals; 2) help build expertise and capacity within our partner organizations in less developed countries or populations, and 3) support the engagement of trainees in global child health. CICH currently carries out projects in China, India, Bangladesh, and Uganda. For further information please visit our website.

Chile Society of Critical Care

The Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine

Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine (CSCCM) was established in 1997, with the initiative of improving academic exchange both in mainland China and with international critical care communities. CSCCM represents Chinese intensivists in both World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (APACCM). During the recent years, CSCCM has dedicated to promote professional education programs in China, to enhance sepsis awareness among intensive care physicians and nurses in China, and also to improve collaborative research in the diagnosis and management of sepsis.

Dutch Meningitis Initiative

Emirates Intensive Care Society

European Society on Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care

The European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care- ESPNIC - was founded in 1980 and has become a strong reference in the field of Neonatal  and Paediatric Intensive Care.
 
Since its foundation, ESPNIC has evolved into representing both medical and nursing professionals across Europe, focusing on promoting the highest quality of care for the critically ill child throughout Europe, through various activities including annual congresses, training programmes, teaching courses, and network opportunities with the leading experts in the fields of PICU & NICU.
 
With its various activities and strong collaboration with other organisations in paediatrics  and neonatology , ESPNIC seeks to raise awareness of child health at a European level, and increase its visibility and credibility amongst professionals.
 
ESPNIC now counts over 600 members from 30 countries  and encourages paediatric or neonatal intensivists, nurses and allied professionals to join our society and benefit from our network opportunities.

Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is the only research institute in the NY metro region dedicated solely to discovering new diagnostics and therapeutics for human disease. The institute is organized nearly 100 laboratories and clinical research programs—in which more than 800 investigators currently conduct groundbreaking translational research. They are supported by a program that enrolls more than 10,000 patients annually in more than 1,300 active clinical protocols. Institute discoveries are protected by over 200 patents in more than 80 fields of technology.

German Sepsis Socitey and German Sepsis Aid

Researchers from the publicy funded German Competence Network Sepsis (SepNet) pioneered the foundation and take leading positions in the Board of the German Sepsis Society (Deutsche Sepsis-Gesellschaft, DSG), founded in 2002. The DSG together with SepNet was very successful in raising public awareness which contributed to a better understanding of the burden of sepsis and the need for adequate funding for sepsis research and better education for health care givers on all levels. These activities were an important prerequisite for the foundation of the worldwide first self-help group of sepsis survivors and involved relatives in 2006. It was founded in Jena as "German Sepsis Aid" (Deutsche Sepsis-Hilfe e.V). In a "Jena Declaration" this group deplored research deficits and asked for increased efforts and better public funding for sepsis research. The German Sepsis Aid also strongly supports all activities of SepNet and the German Sepsis Society (Deutsche Sepsis-Gesellschaft DSG) aimed to further increase public awareness for sepsis and to provide advice to sepsis survivors and their relatives.

GiViTI

GiViTI (in Italian “Gruppo italiano per la Valutazione degli interventi in Terapia Intensiva” – “Italian group for the evaluation of interventions in Intensive Care Medicine”) is a spontaneous and independent network of Intensive Care Units of public and private hospitals established in Italy in 1991. In 2002 GiViTI started a continuous data collection on a specifically designed software (“Margherita 2”, within a short time “Margherita International”). The main objective is to provide data in order to improve outcome of ICU patients and contribute to research in intensive care medicine. A steadily increasing number of ICUs participated over years reaching 225 ICUs in 2009 with >70.000 patients. More than half of Italian ICUs contribute today the GiViTI network and in many regions (Tuscany, Lombardy, Piemonte, Campania..) GiViTI is collaborating with the regional health authorities.

Several research projects have been carried out or are ongoing, but the principal effort is the process of continuous quality improvement through the annual report, where a prediction model of hospital mortality is calculated by logistic regression analysis. A personalized report with the same data is also provided to each participating ICU in order to allow benchmarking on the best available basis.

Hellenic Sepsis Study Group

The Hellenic Sepsis Study Group has been founded in May 2006. It aims at the collection of clinical data and biological samples from patients with sepsis. Until now more than 60 centers, namely Intensive Care Units and Departments of Internal Medicine, across Greece participate. The Group published a booklet containing information about sepsis and treatment recommendations in October 2008.

Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

The Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine was established on 9th October, 1993, in Mumbai, India. It is the largest non-profit association of Indian Physicians, Nurses, Physiotherapists and other allied health care professionals involved in the care of the critically ill. ISCCM which was started with a small group of consultants, from Mumbai, is now having membership of 3800, comprising of 27 city branches all across the India with headquarter at Mumbai. ISCCM is committed for the promotion and advancement of intensive care as a specialty in India by facilitating education and training of physicians and nurses, setting best practice standards for the care of critically ill patients and their families and promoting research. The ultimate aim is to raise the level of critical care practice in the country and to develop future leaders in the field of critical care.

InFACT

An International Forum for Acute Care Trialists ­ is a collaborative network of investigator-led research groups that study the optimal care of acutely ill patients, from their initial presentation in the community through their support in the intensive care unit (ICU) to their rehabilitation and integration back into society.

International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society

A Non-profit Organization for healthcare professionals dealing with critically ill dedicated to promote critical care education, training and research in the middle east and north africa in collaboration with international critical care societies around the globe to upgrade the standards of practice for better care of critically ill in the region and globally.

Latin American Sepsis Institute

The Latin America Sepsis Institute is a non-profit organization aimed to implement educational programs on sepsis in Latin America, including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, as well as to coordinate clinical studies, and increase sepsis awareness in the scientific and lay people. The LA Sepsis Institute has already helped more than 50 hospitals in Brazil to implement the SSC recommendations, and has endorsed the last SSC guidelines.

Maventy Health International

With a focus on the developing world, the mission of Maventy Health International is to save human lives, improve health and quality of life through the most modern ways of prevention and early intervention.

Spanish Edusepsis Network

Surgical Infection Society

The SIS is a multidisciplinary society that is internationally recognized as a leader in the integration of research, evidence and outcome-based management of surgical infections. The mission of the Surgical Infection Society is to educate health care providers and the public about infection in surgical patients and promote research in the understanding, prevention and management of surgical infections.

Survive Sepsis

Survive Sepsis is an educational resource developed in the United Kingdom. The programme aims to promote awareness of sepsis, and the need for immediate intervention, among healthcare professionals of all grades and from all disciplines. Priority is given to the immediate interventions which we know can save lives- early antibiotics and early fluid challenges being the key. Together with other tasks, these have been bundles as a package known as the 'Sepsis Six'. Survive Sepsis has trained over 2000 professionals across England and Wales to date.

UK Sepsis Trust

The United Kingdom Sepsis Trust is a newly established charitable organisation. The aims of the Trust are complementary to those of the Global Sepsis Alliance. We aim to create a support network for survivors of sepsis and those affected by it, underpinned by local group meetings throughout the U.K. We will promote sepsis education for healthcare professionals, and provide support for organisations with a desire to implement process changes to improve care.

Serbian Association of Anesthesiologists and Intensivists

The Association of Anesthesiologists of Yugoslavia was founded in 1966. Due to historical circumstances name has changed several times, finally to Serbian Association of Anesthesiologists and Intensivists (SAAI) in 2006. SAAI is dedicated to support, facilitate and promote professional education, training and research in various fields of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. One of SAAI goals is to upgrade the standards of practice, including enhancing sepsis awareness among intensive care physicians.

The Turkish Society of Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine

Founded in 2005, the Turkish Society of Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine is a national scientific society which emphasizes a multidisciplinary perspective on intensive care medicine, and aims advancement of intensive care, both as a scientific discipline and an important area of health care. The Turkish Society of Medical members include intensivists from a wide range of specialties, like internal medicine, general surgery, pulmonary medicine, pediatrics, anesthesiology, neurosurgery, neurology and cardio-thoracic surgery. The society represents Turkish intensivists as a member of World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. We are a recognized society by European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and we have a dual membership protocol with European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. The Society is governed by the Executive Committee, which also includes members from different specialties. The Society offers activities that promote excellence in patient care, education and research.

International Federation of Emergency Medicine