Our Clinical Research Experience
- Glue Grant – Host Response to Injury
- Mathematical Models of the Acute Inflammatory Response
- An Evaluation of the InSpectra™ Tissue Spectrometer
During Traumatic Shock Resuscitation-funded by Hutchinson
Technology
- Evaluation of Bilirubin as Predictor of Outcome in Injured
Patients
- Effect on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Recovery From Injury
- Hypothermia study
- Arginine and Citrulline study
University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Research Office for Surgery and Trauma
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Topics that we are particularly interested in:
Epidemiology studies
- Determine incidence, prevalence, sensitivity and specificity
- Estimating risk and prognosis studies
- Observational, case control and cohort studies
- Morbidity and Mortality research
- Scaling, scoring and staging studies
Surgical research based on phenomenology to molecular biology
and back:
- Outcome research
- Clinical trials including multicenter collaborative trials
- Statistical and mathematical modelings
Turning clinical problems into research studies:
- Examining and evaluating innovative and conventional ideas
related to surgery and trauma management
- Hypothesis-driven studies
- Development of study endpoints
Industrial research related studies:
- The development and testing of new surgical/ medical devices
- The development and testing of new drugs related to trauma and
critical care
- Translational Studies
Studies based on systematic literature review:
- Research related to evidence-based practice
- Meta-analysis studies
Qualitative research:
- Decision theory, cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness
analysis
- Quality control and performance improvement in surgery and
trauma
- Technology assessment
- Ethical related research
- Surgical research: from bedside to the laboratory and back
- Surgical critical care
- Trauma and surgical complications including infections
- Hypovolemic shock
- Septic shock
- Hypothermia
- Wound healing related research
- Trauma
- Injury prevention
- Recidivism in trauma
- Manipulation of immune responses through nutritional intervention
- Arginine metabolism and atherogenesis
- Immature myeloid cells and T-cell suppression in trauma,
- Patient safety and quality control
- Multiple organ dysfunction
- Trauma and comorbidity
- Morbid obesity in surgical and trauma patients
- Trauma system and trauma care delivery
- Traumatic brain injury
- Solid organ injuries
- Pain management in trauma and surgery
- Epidemiology of trauma and injury
- Health service related to trauma and surgery practice
Trauma remains probably the largest health issue in the USA
and globally. Both trauma and critical care are incredibly rich
venues for clinical research. Surgery is also a field of
continuous advances and innovations. Clinical research in
surgery and trauma will demandingly continue to flourish
decades to come.
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Type of research that we can handle:
