Clinical Research – Our team is investigating the possible detrimental effects of blood transfusion on critically ill patients with neurological disease and evaluating better ways of treating patients with respiratory failure.
Basic Science Research – our team is evaluating the effects of induced hypothermia combined with induced hypertension in patients with cardiac arrest.
Case Critical Care Bioinformatics Project- The Case Critical Care Bioinformatics Working Group is a collaboration between University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University.
In the intensive care unit, physiologic data is acquired using devices from a variety of different manufacturers. The data, however, is generally not integrated or processed in a cohesive manner to be of maximum clinical utility. The medical industry has simply not incorporated many of the advances in computer science, biomedical engineering, signal processing, and mathematics. We believe that the future of intensive care monitoring lies in:
- Integration and time-synchronization of multiple channels of physiological data continuously and simultaneously
- Processing of this data in real-time, using new tools such as multivariate analysis and nonlinear time series analysis
- Presenting the processed information visually in a user-friendly and customizable way
We are developing such a system.
Case Critical Care Bioinformatics Consortium
Multimodal Monitoring and Neurocritical Care Bioinformatics: The Dawn of a New Age