Charles Sprung

Professor & Director Emeritus of the General ICU at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel

Professor Charles Sprung is the Director Emeritus of the General Intensive Care Unit in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel where he has worked for the last 32 years. He was previously the Director
of the Section of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the VA Medical Center and the University of Miami for 13 years. Professor Sprung was the Chairman of the Committee on Ethics Section of the US Society of Critical Care Medicine from 1987 to1994 and of the European
Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) from 1996 to 2001 and 2004 to 2007.

Professor Sprung has been active in research particularly studying sepsis, septic shock and ethical issues for more than 40 years. He was a member of the ACCP/SCCM consensus conference on definitions of sepsis in 1991. He has participated in many sepsis studies including those of
encephalopathy and treatments with corticosteroids, monoclonal antibodies to endotoxin and tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, antithrombin III, tissue factor pathway inhibitor, human activated protein C and recombinant platelet-activating factor. Professor Sprung
coordinated the prospective, multicenter European trial of corticosteroids in septic shock, Corticus. He was the Coordinator of several multi-center studies in ethics including End of Life Decision Making and Procedures in European Intensive Care Units – ETHICUS, Systematic Study of General
Ethical Principles Involved in End of Life Decisions for Patients in European Intensive Care Units – ETHICATT, Triage Decision Making for the Elderly in European Intensive Care units ELDICUS and Worldwide End of Life Practice for Patients in Intensive Care Units –Welpicus. He has published
extensively in all of these areas with more than 300 publications.

Lectures by Charles Sprung

Foregoing life-sustaining treatment in the ICU

A review of practices around the world

Critical Care Nursing / End of Life Care

Foregoing life-sustaining treatment in the ICU

A review of practices around the world

Critical Care Medicine / End of Life Care