ECHO Australia celebrates 20 years
CCRG’s Professor John F Fraser will deliver the 5th John O’Shea Memorial Lecture at the 2022 ECHO Australia conference to be held at Queensland’s Gold Coast Convention and Entertainment Centre next week.
CCRG Alumni: Maximilian Malfertheiner
Dr Maximilian Malfertheiner is the Medical Director of the Lung Center Donaustauf, Germany. Before a stint at Yale University, Dr Malfertheiner carried out a research fellowship at CCRG.
Meet Dr Sainath Raman
Dr Raman recently collaborated with CCRG Research Fellow Dr Nchafatso Obonyo as guests editors for the paediatric sepsis topic in Frontiers of Paediatrics Journal and collaborate on our sepsis research studies. We spoke with Dr Raman ahead of World Sepsis Day to learn more about his research.
International research collaborations improving patient outcomes
From Kenya to Australia to the United Kingdom, the Critical Care Research Group has partnered with colleagues from around the world to understand sepsis treatment pathways.
Spotlight on CCRG Sepsis research
Spotlight on CCRG Sepsis research: Read more about CCRG’s life-changing Sepsis research and how we are re-examining current treatment guidelines to improve patient outcomes
eDIS-ICU study moves to the next stage
The ICU of the Future project goes from strength to strength recruiting patients from three countries to trial a new digital delirium diagnostic tool.
CCRG Doctoral Fellow receives prestigious QCvRN scholarship
CCRG’s Dr Gabriele Fior wins career affirming scholarship to further ARDS research
ICU of the Future project team
Meet the team delivering the ICU of the Future Project, revolutionising the ICU arena to optimise recoveries.
Unloading the Information “Overload” in Intensive Care
Professor Fraser spoke about the importance of global collaboration and how CCRG is unloading the information overload in the intensive care arena on behalf of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium and the ICU of the Future project teams.
Meet Dr Nchafatso Obonyo
Did you know that donations made to The Common Good fund a number of medical research grants and fellowships? The Common Good recently awarded a Research Fellowship to Dr Nchafatso Obonyo. Read on to hear more about his story.
UQ Early Career Researchers Symposium
Congratulations to Dr Louise See Hoe from the Critical Care Research Group's Living Heart Project who recently won Best Oral Presentation, Emerging Life Science Technology at the University of Queensland's Early Career Researcher Symposium.
CCRG Fellow wins EuroELSO Young Investigator Award for the second time.
Congratulations are in order for the Critical Care Research Group’s Dr Silver Heinsar who has been named as one of twelve ELSO Young Investigators for 2022.
Life-support system reduced COVID-19 mortality by 7.1%, study shows
ECMO was associated with a reduction in mortality in selected adults with covid-19 associated respiratory failure.
Farewell Chris Parker
This week we came together to acknowledge the long service and dedication of The Prince Charles Hospital Library’s Chris Parker.
Meet Chris Hoi Houng Chan
After finishing his chemical engineering PhD in fluid dynamic at Swansea University, Chris Chan went on to study a different sort of fluid… blood! We spoke to Chris about his work with CCRG’s ICETlab and complex blood flow systems in artificial hearts.
ICU of the Future prototype showcase
Did you know that up to 75% of patients admitted to ICU can experience delirium, many developing PTSD, depression and anxiety as a direct result of the ICU environment.