Abbott Sponsored Webinar: Beyond the ICU: The Role of Lactate in Sepsis, Recovery, and Readmission Risk
Includes a Live Web Event on 12/09/2025 at 11:00 AM (PST)
Webinar Description:
This sponsored webinar will explore the established role of lactate as a critical indicator of physiological stress and disease severity, with particular focus on its importance in the management of sepsis. In the hospital setting, serial lactate measurement through point-of-care or laboratory testing provides clinicians with real-time data that guide timely intervention and improve outcomes, yet there remains a significant blind spot once patients transition to the home environment. The inability to measure lactate outside the hospital, due to the rapid degradation of blood samples, leaves newly discharged patients and those with chronic conditions vulnerable to unrecognized deterioration and avoidable readmission. The session will highlight the limitations of current practice, the clinical consequences of delayed recognition, and the potential impact of new approaches to lactate monitoring, drawing on current work examining sepsis readmission risk and opportunities to strengthen continuity of care.
No CE credits are offered for this sponsored webinar. Content was determined by the sponsor.
Webinar Sponsor:
Sepsis Alliance gratefully acknowledges the support provided by Abbott for this sponsored webinar.
Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH, FACEP
Associate Professor & Chief, Division of Emergency Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician cross-trained in internal medicine and critical care at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), where he is also an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. He is the founding Chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care within the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The major focus of his career has been on improving the diagnosis and outcomes of sepsis patients. He is the Medical Director of Hospital Sepsis at UC San Diego, a position he has had since 2018. In this role, he has overseen a 40% drop in sepsis mortality. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to investigate novel approaches to improve care of patients with sepsis through big data and machine-learning approaches. Dr. Wardi has been selected by his peers as a "Top Doctor" in San Diego multiple times.
Dr. Wardi has over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters published focusing on care of patients with sepsis and novel approaches using AI in medicine to improve patient-centered outcomes.