How to prevent sepsis COMMUNITY The main ways to prevent infection are:

HEALTH
CARE
The role you can play in health care and communities
#sepsis #handhygiene
Good hygiene Practicing
the 5 Moments
for hand
hygiene

life-threatening
injures 40%
tissues DIARRHOEA

What is illness and

organs 50%
sepsis? Sepsis arises when an infection alters
Safe water
and sanitation
INFECTION

the body's normal response

causing injury to tissue and organs 10%
GLOBAL
A clean,
well-functioning
DISEASE BURDEN
environment ABHR
and equipment

Safe food preparation and good nutrition

Safe water
and sanitation
Every year sepsis affects Who is at risk?

Infection prevention
and control programmes
Anyone with an infection can develop 50% 30% and teams

30 3
RESPIRATORY
sepsis but some are more at risk than others
30%
DIARRHOEA INFECTIONS
IN CHILDREN
INFECTION
million
million newborns Vaccinations
people Infection
worldwide Prevent prevention
measures
2-3
million deaths
PREGNANT every year
WOMEN NEONATES

can kill
1.2
million
children
6
million
Evolution of an infection to sepsis can be prevented by:

people Early detection of sepsis Prompt seeking of medical care Prompt antimicrobial
THE THE signs and symptoms treatment and its reassessment
ELDERLY IMMUNOSUPPRESSED

causes
kills up to
500 000 1 in 10
maternal
newborns
deaths
PATIENTS WITH HOSPITALIZED
CHRONIC DISEASES PATIENTS

Together we can help prevent sepsis

How and where do we prevent sepsis?
and save millions of lives every year
Sepsis can be prevented by

preventing preventing the evolution

infection of infection to sepsis

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