Critical Care and Trauma
Research Highlights
The Division of Critical Care and Trauma is particularly interested in pursuing research that will improve outcomes of their patients. Recent research efforts have focused on:
- pathophysiology of acute respiratory failure
- systemic responses in ischemia-reperfusion injury
- circulatory derangements in systemic sepsis
- epidemiology of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- computerized outcome prediction
- nosocomial infections in critically ill patients
- influence of antibiotic therapy on mortality of critical surgical illness caused or complicated by infection
- efficacy of therapy of drotecogin alpha for intraabdominal infection complicated by septic shock
- acute renal failure in surgical patients
Contact
- Critical Care and Trauma
- (212) 746-5401
