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