Posts tagged Critical Care Life Support
Filling in the blanks: how COVID is shaping the future of critical care medicine

The COVID-19 crisis brought critical care medicine into the global spotlight and re-exposed systemic gaps in patient care. Four years after the initial surge of cases, the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation at the University of Michigan is asking the question: where do we go from here?

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U-M Weil Institute, College of Engineering & Michigan Medicine Awarded $5.7M Grant for Wearable Sensor that Detects Diseases through Body Odor

A research team led by Weil Institute Associate Director Xudong (Sherman) Fan, PhD has received a $5.7 million grant from the NIH SCENT program to develop a portable sensor that uses body odor to detect over 20 acute and chronic, inflammatory, metabolic, respiratory, cardiovascular and skin diseases in both adults and children.

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The Weil Institute & Abiomed: Teaming Up to Restart the Heart

The Weil Institute Pre-Clinical Critical Care Laboratory (PC3L) is collaborating with medical device maker Abiomed, Inc. to examine the potential of using Abiomed Impella CP® left ventricular assist device as a resuscitative strategy for sudden cardiac arrest.

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Promising New Technology Identifies Certain Deteriorating Critical Care Patients Before "Crash"

New research shows a groundbreaking clinical tool, in development by Fifth Eye and Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC), can reliably alert clinicians that a patient is at risk of developing hemodynamic instability — one of the most common causes of death for critically injured or ill patients — well before they deteriorate. This allows for earlier intervention before the patient progresses to cardiac arrest, organ injury, or other serious adverse events.

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