• Niranjan Kissoon, Konrad Reinhart, Ron Daniels, Machado Flavia R Machado, Raymond D Schachter, and Simon Finfer.
• Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, BC Children's Hospital and CFRI, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2017 Dec 1; 18 (12): e625-e627.

BackgroundSepsis, worldwide the leading cause of death in children, has now been recognized as the global health emergency it is. On May 26, 2017, the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, adopted a resolution proposed by the Global Sepsis Alliance to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis.ObjectiveTo discuss the implications of this resolution for children worldwide.ConclusionsThe resolution highlights sepsis as a global threat and urges the 194 United Nations member states to take specific actions and implement appropriate measures to reduce its human and health economic burden. The resolution is a major step toward achieving the targets outlined by the Sustainable Developmental Goals for decreasing mortality in infants and children, but implementing it will require a concerted global effort.

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