The Critical Care Research Group undertakes a programme of research which focuses on the identification of early patient deterioration and long-term clinical outcomes of patients who have been admitted to an Intensive Care Unit.
Early detection of deteriorating patients
Improving diagnosis and treatment of patients in the ICU
Improving monitoring and follow-up of patients after critical illness
ABOUT US
Led by Professor Peter Watkinson, the group has a successful history of conducting research in and around the Critical Care environment. We are based at the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research & Education. A highly multi-disciplinary team, we include clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists, biomedical engineers and statisticians.
The group is funded through a combination of project grants, individual fellowships and its ongoing involvement with the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford (within the Technology and Digital Health Theme). Examples of recent funding include an NIHR Health Technology Assessment grant to investigate anti-coagulation during renal replacement therapy in 69,000 critically ill patients from 181 ICUs in England and Wales (Renal Replacement Anticoagulation Management, RRAM), and Wellcome funding to investigate COVID-19 disease risk in 8.3 million people.
The group has strong and ongoing collaborations with the Department of Engineering (Lionel Tarassenko and David Clifton groups), Centre for Statistics in Medicine, ICNARC and the universities of Southampton and Portsmouth. These collaborations bring additional expertise in the fields of artificial intelligence, advanced statistical modelling and clinical trial management.
The group enjoys the support of several NHS Trusts and their clinical teams in supporting its research activities. The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust ICU, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust are amongst many groups that have provided instrumental support for our group. The group hosts postgraduate projects and provides research secondment opportunities for doctors and allied health professionals. It is heavily involved in the NIHR academic foundation and academic clinical fellowship programmes, providing academic training to junior clinicians.
Our research projects
Medical Doctors
Allied health professionals
Statisticians
Engineering Science
Patient and Public Involement (PPI)
Our Team
Cristian Roman
Senior research associate in biomedical engineering
Paul Coombes
Software engineer
Alessandra Morelli
Research midwife
Stephen Gerry
Senior Medical Statistician
Mae Chester-Jones
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Elizabeth King
Physiotherapist and doctoral candidate
Owen Gustafson
Postdoctoral research physiotherapist
Marianne Beach
Academic Foundation Doctor
Jonathan Bedford
Postdoctoral clinical research fellow
Verena Michael
Academic Foundation Doctor
Charlotte Harrison
Academic Clinical Fellow
Rebecca Dalton
Research Physiotherapist
Pavithra Sakthivel
Academic Foundation Doctor
Key publications
Association between pre-existing respiratory disease and its treatment, and severe COVID-19: a population cohort study
Aveyard P. et al, (2021), The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
CONTACT US
Critical Care Research Group
Kadoorie Centre
Level 3
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
OX3 9DU
+44 (0)1865 231448
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