Our story
That is why in 2012 a group enthusiastic intensivists launched an initiative, what we called SepsEast, in order to bring Eastern European opinion leaders and Western European experts together on a conference in Budapest, Hungary. The reason for starting this initiative in Central and Eastern Europe was the recognition of the importance of the shared legacy that we brought from the former Soviet-block, which lead to similar problems in each country. Namely, intensive care in this region of Europe became severely underfunded, understaffed with very poor research activity as compared to our Western counterparts.The idea was welcomed by several societies and we decided to organize our conferences regularly and biannually.
SepsEast Conference was organized with great success in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, but then COVID-19 pandemic came, and we had to focus on the daily fight for our patients at the bedside. However, we joined forces, organized online webinars in order to share experiences, to exchange views and strategies, to teach and learn, and we created a registry for research.