Critical Care Research

Introduction to Critical Care Research

MedStar also conducts critical care research and specializes in surgical, medical, trauma, and neurological care.

Research Topics

• Sedation and acute dementia
• Infectious disease
• Shock
• Open heart surgery
• Device trials (cardiac, gastrointestinal, pulmonary)
• Ventilation therapies
• Sepsis with severe infection
• Adult respiratory distress syndrome
• Acute hyperthermia
• Antibiotic resistant organisms
• Severe pneumonia
• Severe neurological injuries
• Phase I, II and III clinical trials
• Pharmacoeconomic studies