Sepsis Alliance Connect

Sepsis Alliance Connect is a virtual support community designed for the millions of people affected by sepsis. Each year, an estimated 1.4 million people survive sepsis and over 350,000 adults die from sepsis in the United States alone. Sepsis Alliance Connect is a place for these survivors, caregivers, loved ones, and those left behind after a sepsis death to come together and share resources, insight, and encouragement about their sepsis experience and life after sepsis.

The main goal of Sepsis Alliance Connect is to connect those who have been impacted by this often isolating and frequently misunderstood condition. Members can take part in live and pre-recorded programs exploring topics such as:

• Coping with life after sepsis
• Managing mental health
• Adjusting to life after amputations

Sepsis Alliance Connect was launched by Sepsis Alliance in 2022 with the support of volunteer community leaders passionate about positively impacting the lives of those affected by sepsis.

• Peer Support Conversations
  These conversations, scheduled at various times throughout each month, are facilitated by volunteers who are sepsis survivors, caregivers of sepsis survivors, and people who have lost a loved one to sepsis.
• Diagnostic Solutions for Sepsis, March 22, 2023
  Mark Miller, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, bioMérieux 

  BioMérieux creates, develops and produces diagnostic solutions that help healthcare professionals quickly and reliably determine the cause of patients’ acute medical problems, providing them with crucial information for optimal patient care. Specifically in the fight against sepsis, “diagnostics” is a game-changer, since early identification and appropriate treatment can save lives. Dr. Mark Miller will present the latest developments in these diagnostic solutions, including those which rapidly detect the infections causing sepsis as well as tests for characterizing the organ failures which accompany this serious condition.

• Balanced Sepsis Amputee Community, March 27. 2023
  Leslie Green, Founder: Balance Amputee Education and Wellness

  Leslie Green is a sepsis survivor and bilateral, below-the-knee amputee who has many years of experience working alongside people with limb loss and limb difference. Balance Amputee Education and Wellness’s communities provide education, to various groups of people who have experienced amputations due to sepsis and other factors. This Sepsis Alliance Connect and Balance Amputee Education and Wellness collaborative session will connect members of these communities to share resources and discuss topics related to amputations due to sepsis.

Browse a library of recorded programs you can watch any time, which will grow as new programs are added. As soon as you log in, you’ll find a program library which includes:

• Holidays and Anniversaries: Marks on the Calendar Left by Sepsis, Rosalie Carter, grandmother of Amir Carter-Williams, who died of sepsis; Sandra Kleier, sepsis survivor; and Kaitlin Walden, mother of a sepsis survivor
• Unmet Expectations: Grief When Sepsis Changes Your Life, Kristan Seaford, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counsellor and Sepsis Survivor; Darrell Raikes, Sepsis Survivor; Kaitlin Walden, Mother of Pediatric Sepsis Survivor
• Pain After Sepsis, Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN: Senior Clinical Content Advisor, Sepsis Alliance;Mike St. Onge, Sepsis Survivor;
  Toya Russell, Sepsis Survivor
• Caregivers’ Mental Health, Dr. Stephen M. Scheinthal: Department of Psychiatry, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
• Amputee Panel, Katy Grainger, Kim Gilliam Steele & Mike St. Onge: Sepsis Survivors and Amputees
• Sepsis and Older Adults, Al Cardillo, LMSW: President & CEO, Home Care Association of New York State
  & Wayne Shepard, RN: Director, Delaware County Office of the Aging
• Advocacy Basics, Kristin DeVries: Director of Advocacy, Sepsis Alliance
• Grief 101, Kristan Seaford, LPC
• Disparities in Sepsis Cases, Sandy N. Cayo, DNP, and Cindy Hou, DO
• Sepsis awareness resources
• Adaptive fitness and meditation classes
• and more