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Posts in the University Hospital Southampton category
Labetalol vs Nicardipine – Comparing Labetalol to Nicardipine for Acute Blood Pressure Management
In Neurosciences ICU (NICU), precise blood pressure control is strongly recommended in patients with brain haemorrhage (bleeding) and inflammation due to dangerously high blood pressure. It is postulated that rapid…
Management of ICU RTIs – The burden, management strategies adopted and outcomes of severe respiratory tract infections in intensive care units- Wessex clinical research collaboration from Wessex Intensive Care Innovation and Research Network (WICIR)
Serious lung infections are a common problem. This research project will study how people with serious lung infections are cared for in intensive care units and what happens to them…
Understanding Biomedical Burden in Perioperative Care: Validation and Refinement of Early Digital Screening and Biomedical Burden Ontology using Primary and Secondary Care Linkage in the Wessex Secure Data Environment
People who live with several long-term health conditions, are frail, or have reduced fitness are more likely to have complications after surgery. Spotting who is most at risk early gives…
Evaluating brain health across the life course: exploring SDE capabilities for machine learning-driven, imaging-based, dementia diagnostics
Perfusion SPECT imaging is a type of brain scan that shows how blood flows through different areas of the brain. In conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, this blood flow can…
PROCED-DST – PROactive, Collaborative and Efficient complex Discharge – Decision Support Tool
As of January 2023, 14,436 patients a day remained in hospital despite being well enough to leave. This is due to delays in arrangements for onward care. Discharge delay occupies…
Opioids in ICU – Outcome of regular IV opioids in mechanically ventilated ICU patients
This study looks back (retrospectively) at medical records from 1,600 adult patients who were on breathing machines (mechanical ventilation) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at University Hospital Southampton (UHS).…
FORTH – FORecasting Turbulence in Hospitals
UK health trusts declared 141 critical incidents between December-2022 and October-2023. These cause increased last-minute cancellations of operations and appointments, delayed discharges, overcrowding, staff workload pressure, and worse quality-of-care. Variability…
CARDS – A study of the efficacy, implications and barriers to the future deployment of Computed Assisted Risk of Deterioration Score, a machine learning early warning score, in UK hospitals.
Hospitals collect data about patients to facilitate good care: to diagnose, assess, monitor, and personalise care. However, hospitals do not currently make maximum use of this data, and opportunities are…
Surgical NEC – Diagnostic test accuracy study of methods which identify surgical Necrotising enterocolitis
Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating disease which causes severe bowel inflammation resulting in babies becoming critically unwell. It mainly affects premature babies (who can be born as early as…
Bladder Cancer – Describing Overall Survival and First-Line Treatment Patterns in High-Risk Invasive Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma Post-Resection Patients
Details from 78 patients are being used in this study, using routinely collected historic data that has been de-identified before it is entered into the SDE. By bringing together different…