Together we can make a difference.
There’s a lack of sepsis research, awareness and advocacy in New Zealand often leaving sepsis patients and survivors with no natural advocate in the healthcare system.
The Sepsis Trust was founded to raise awareness of sepsis, a severe outcome of infection. At the Trust, frontline healthcare workers and sepsis survivors work together to find ways of increasing awareness, improving care of serious infection, and supporting survivors. We understand the damage that infection can do.
It’s hard to describe and it’s not easy to detect but it is killing our whānau. Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of infection that needs urgent treatment.
Terms you may recognise to describe sepsis include blood poisoning / toto pirau and septicaemia, but whatever you call it, early recognition and treatment will save a life.
children die of sepsis each year globally.
sepsis cases originated in the community.
cost of sepsis related hospitalisation in New Zealand.
number of people that die of sepsis each year globally.
Together we can make a difference.
There’s a lack of sepsis research, awareness and advocacy in New Zealand often leaving sepsis patients and survivors with no natural advocate in the healthcare system.
With your support you could help us reach the following goals:
Employ 5 part-time nurse educators to cover New Zealand's major population centres.
To undertake research to demonstrate what proportion of the population know about sepsis.
Offer training and support for hospital quality-improvement teams.
The New Zealand Sepsis Trust aims to take up this role by promoting clinical tools, providing education and fundraising to build awareness and sepsis research capability.
