News
Transforming Research to Improve Therapies for Trauma
2024 30 Apr
The impact of trauma on global health is significant, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities annually, with a particularly high toll on young people. However, the elderly are also increasingly affected. Variances in trauma-related death patterns worldwide are influenced by factors such as prompt treatment availability and the prevalence...Read more
Ventilator-Associated Brain Injury - A Priority for Research in Mechanical Ventilation
2024 02 Apr
Mechanical ventilation can lead to complications like ventilator-induced lung injury and ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction. However, there may be other forms of ventilator-associated issues that require understanding to improve outcomes for patients on mechanical ventilation. In particular, ventilator-associated brain injury (VABI) should be...Read more
Change in Research Focus for Early Nutrition
2024 21 Mar
In an interesting session today at #ISICEM24, Dr Annika Reintam Blaser, an intensivist at Lucerne Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland, discussed future research on optimising feeding for critically ill patients. She highlighted the accumulating evidence over the past 15 years suggesting that feeding might have harmful effects on critically ill patients....Read more
World Sepsis Day - Let's Work Together to Encourage and Support Sepsis Research
2023 12 Sep
A woman came to see me a few days ago: her 44-year-old husband recently died from sepsis in another hospital, and she wanted to have a discussion about this tragic story. Her husband had had just some kind of blister on his foot. He didn’t seem very ill when he arrived at the hospital, but he quickly developed an extended area of fasciitis on his left...Read more
ICU telemedicine - why qualitative research matters
2018 27 Nov
ICU telemedicine traces its beginnings to the 1970s, when an intensivist at a university hospital connected to a single small ICU using audio-visual technology to remotely conduct daily patient rounds and weekly teaching rounds with the local staff. This technology-based strategy is intended to improve patient care and outcomes, by extending the reach...Read more
Industry News
Hematology/Oncology: New Results from Clinical Research Program
2024 10 Jun
Hematology/oncology: AOP Health’s expanding clinical research program delivers new results. AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals GmbH (AOP Health) continues a successful clinical research program in hematology/oncology with two abstracts accepted for presentation at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2024 hybrid congress in Madrid, Spain....Read more
Rare Diseases: No Innovative Therapies Without Research
2024 20 Feb
Individualized therapies and the integration of the patient's perspective are becoming increasingly important. February 29 is Rare Disease Day. On this occasion, the Austrian pharmaceutical company AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals GmbH (AOP Health) takes a look at the challenges faced by patients with rare diseases and highlights the trends...Read more
Collaborative Research Ensures Availability of Rare Disease Therapies
2023 14 Nov
To ensure the availability of new therapies for rare diseases, a functioning cooperation between the public sector, academic research and research-based companies is crucial. With this in mind, Vienna's City Councilor for Health, Social Affairs and Sport, Peter Hacker, paid the Austrian pharmaceutical company AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals GmbH ("AOP Health")...Read more
Inauguration Of Getinge-Supported Research Center In Stockholm
2020 30 Sep
Getinge is one of the industry partners of the new Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences (AIMES), which today is inaugurated in Stockholm, Sweden. AIMES is the result of a collective effort by the medical research university Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology . The center’s...Read more
Philips & the Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin Start Joint Research Program
2015 20 Nov
Philips and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin start joint research program on non-pharmacological methods to prevent delirium in critical care Clinical insights combined with innovative non-pharmacological delirium management solutions may help prevent or lessen delirium and help critical care patients recover faster Royal Philips (NYSE:...Read more
Articles
Carbon Footprint in ICU: A New Meaningful Outcome in Research Trials
2023 26 May
Reducing the carbon footprint in healthcare is a requirement for guaranteeing the best future for humanity. Here we suggest that the carbon footprint be assessed as a potential endpoint for future trials in critical care. Environmental Impact in Critical Care The climate crisis is a threat to global health. The temperature of the atmosphere...Read more
Advances in Sepsis Research – New Tools Against One of the Oldest Diseases?
2020 14 Sep
Sepsis and septic shock are the leading causes of death in the ICU. With an estimated mortality rate of 40-60%, septic shock is in the focus of adult critical care medicine. It is broadly accepted that intervention in the very early phase of sepsis before the complex inflammatory host response is initiated should be one major area that clinical research...Read more
The Intelligent Intensive Care Unit: Integrating Care, Research and Education
2020 15 Jan
Integration of care, research and education in the intelligent intensive care unit. Patients admitted to the intensive care unit suffer from a variety of symptoms, pathologies, and comorbidities and are at risk of many adverse outcomes. Healthcare and technology for this vulnerable, heterogeneous patient group have immensely developed over...Read more
The business of research
2019 14 Mar
What is the value of physicians and their contribution to the healthcare system and economic growth? This article talks about the need to understand the real value of physicians and to encourage them to be creative and innovative as this would improve their value beyond that of daily clinical labour. Disruptive innovations are critical...Read more
High Altitude Research and its Relevance to Critical Illness
2017 28 May
Critical illness can be considered as the body’s failure to compensate for severe pathophysiological ‘stress’. The result is a vicious circle of damage that ultimately ends in organ failure, permanent harm and, unfortunately for many, death. Fortunately, the human body is remarkably resilient. It has the ability to tolerate changes to its internal...Read more
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2022 04 Oct
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