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Noise, sleep and delerium in intensive care
Anaesthetics Research
31 October 2016
The SILENCE project, funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit stream, featured on BBC Radio 4 Inside Health on 4 October 2016.
Researchers target intensive care noise problem
Anaesthetics Research
8 April 2016
TV presents one picture of an intensive care unit (ICU) – dimmed lights, hushed voices and softly bleeping machines. The reality is that it's more like a busy restaurant and frequently it's noisy enough to compete with a pneumatic drill. That's why Oxford University researchers have been trying to make intensive care noise less intensive.
Understanding how we perceive the threat of breathlessness
Anaesthetics Integrative Neuroimaging Research
1 March 2016
Researchers find that components of a small group of brain cells in the brainstem are important in how people perceive the threat of breathlessness.
Unravelling the mystery of pain and anaesthesia
Anaesthetics Integrative Neuroimaging Research
15 February 2016
Listen to Irene Tracey discussing her work on pain at the Wellcome Collection/BBC World Service 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series
Our researchers test health technology on zero gravity flights with NASA
Anaesthetics Research
22 September 2015
A team of doctors and scientists from the University of Oxford have tested a tissue oxygen monitor in microgravity for the first time.
Anaesthetist Jaideep Pandit wins British Medical Association Award
Anaesthetics Award
22 September 2015
New system to identify patients at risk of admission to intensive care
Anaesthetics
3 September 2015
Researchers and clinicians from Oxford and Portsmouth have been awarded £1.8m by the Health Innovation Challenge Fund to develop a new electronic system to recognise deteriorating patients in hospitals.
Aviation study shows lower air pressure leads to higher blood pressure in lungs
Anaesthetics Research
2 June 2015
A study in our Department has found that the lower-pressure environment experienced when flying increases blood pressure in the lungs. With an unknown but significant number of flights diverted each year for medical emergencies, the results could be used to improve health screening before flight as well as care for patients being moved by air.
Irene Tracey awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Anaesthetics Award Integrative Neuroimaging
11 May 2015
48 of the UK's leading medical researchers have been recognised for excellence in medical science with their election to the Academy Fellowship.
Researchers aim to help patients sleep better during their stay in hospital
Anaesthetics
20 November 2014
Professor Duncan Young has been awarded £280,000 by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to look at the problem of noise levels and sleep in the intensive care unit.
First UK study of ketamine for people with severe depression
Anaesthetics Research
3 April 2014
Andrew Farmery of the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics has co-authored a paper on the first UK study of the use of ketamine intravenous infusions in people with treatment-resistant depression.
Landmark in stroke treatement
Anaesthetics Research
20 January 2014
Staff at the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics have helped the Acute Vascular Imaging Centre to reach a major landmark that could boost care for stroke patients.
Researchers pinpoint degrees of consciousness during anaesthesia
Anaesthetics Research
24 October 2013
Researchers led by Professor Irene Tracey of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have discovered how to get the clearest picture yet of degrees of perceptual awareness in the brain during the period of anaesthesia.