19 October 2020
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n8 October 2020
\n \n \n \nAn international group of experts have published guidance on how to prevent opioid-related harm in adult surgical patients.
\n \n\n \n \n29 September 2020
\n \n \n \nHilary Edgcombe, with two colleagues in other centres, has co-edited a new Oxford Handbook addressing safe anaesthesia in resource-limited settings
\n \n\n \n \n21 July 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford are investigating the long-term health outcomes for patients who have been treated for severe COVID-19 disease in intensive care. Finding out whether these outcomes differ from those of other patients who have survived critical care will help to inform clinical practice and appropriate follow-up care.
\n \n\n \n \n6 July 2020
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford's LIFE project has launched a new set of app-based training scenarios that help healthcare workers in Africa safely manage and treat cases of children with suspected COVID-19
\n \n\n \n \n18 June 2020
\n \n \n \nStaff at our Oxford Simulation,Teaching & Research centre (OxSTaR) helped to develop this new type of aerosol shield designed by Formula One motor racing engineers
\n \n\n \n \n10 June 2020
\n \n \n \nAs part of the UK NIHR multi-arm, multi-stage CATALYST Trial, researchers at the University of Oxford will investigate whether administering the anti-inflammatory drug infliximab to patients with COVID-19 can prevent progression to respiratory failure or death.
\n \n\n \n \n29 May 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers including Stuart McKechnie and Matthew Rowland from our Critical Care Research Group are carrying out a new drug trial aimed at treating COVID-19, funded by LifeArc.
\n \n\n \n \n29 April 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research Centre has been busier than ever during the coronavirus pandemic
\n \n\n \n \n7 April 2020
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
\n \n\n \n \n1 April 2020
\n \n \n \nSystem being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital
\n \n\n \n \n20 March 2020
\n \n \n \nAn interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK\u2019s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
\n \n\n \n \n12 September 2019
\n \n \n \nNew analysis from over 36,000 healthy women in 20 countries suggests that physiological changes during pregnancy may not be as dramatic as traditionally taught. However, blood pressures do appear to be increasing year on year.
\n \n\n \n \n5 September 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Patient Safety Academy (PSA) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences was honoured to host two high profile British doctors and an international research leader yesterday.
\n \n\n \n \n28 June 2019
\n \n \n \nOur exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (1-7 July 2019), will bring the topic of \u2018Breathing with your Brain\u2019 to life!
\n \n\n \n \n7 December 2018
\n \n \n \nThe new suite is a joint venture between Oxford Simulation, Training and Research (OxSTaR), which is part of our Department, and the Horton Education Centre.
\n \n\n \n \n23 November 2018
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n13 August 2018
\n \n \n \nOut-of-hours discharge from intensive care is strongly associated with both in-hospital death and ICU readmission.
\n \n\n \n \n9 August 2018
\n \n \n \nA team involving our Critical Care Research Group have discovered that patients with severe illnesses treated on intensive care units often have problems with their movement and mobility long after they are discharged from hospital.
\n \n\n \n \n20 September 2017
\n \n \n \nProfessor Kyle Pattinson from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences explains how brain scanning could help doctors to personalise treatment for people with chronic breathing disorders.
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