Acute Care Research Acute care is any unplanned healthcare contact or escalation in hospital healthcare requirements. It includes not only front door medicine and surgery, but peri and post-operative and critical care for adults and children. Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre is an internationally unique, multi-disciplinary and integrated collaborative group of healthcare professionals, clinical academics, scientists and researchers with a shared mission to improve outcomes for the high number of patients seeking acute care. Our Theme Leads BACR Theme Lead Dr Dhruv Parekh Associate Professor in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine View profile BACR Deputy Theme Lead Dr Aaron Scott Associate Professor in Respiratory Science View profile Our Research Studies CATALYST Trial to test new therapies for patients hospitalised due to suspected or confirmed severe COVID-19 COVID-19 Clinical Neuroscience Study (COVID-CNS) Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation - Effectiveness of Electronic Cigarettes compared with varenicline for smoking cessation in patients with COPD and effect on the Lungs (EME-ECAL study) Epidemiology and Determinants of Outcomes of Hospital Acquired Blood Stream Infections in the Intensive Care (Eurobact 2) Study ERASER Trial: Early Rib Analgesia with Serratus plane block. A Pragmatic Randomised Control Trial evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Serratus Anterior Plane Block with catheter insertion compared to Usual Care in patients with multiple rib fractures European Society of Intensive Care Medicine COVID-19 Project (UNITE-COVID) Evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of using a more permissive blood pressure target to guide careful titration of vasoactive agents in critically ill children with hypotension: PRotocolised Evaluation of permiSSive blood pressure targets versus Usual caRE (PRESSURE) A Randomised Controlled Trial to investigate the effectiveness of Thoracic Epidural and Paravertebral Blockade In reducing Chronic Post- Thoracotomy Pain: 2 Stepping Up: A Phased Evaluation of the Impact of High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) of Emergency Medical Admissions to NHS Hospitals STRESS-L: STudy into the REversal of Septic Shock with Beta Blockade (Landiolol) Sugar or Salt (SOS) trial: Hyperosmolar therapy in traumatic brain injury The PERMIT study. Paediatric Early Rehabilitation/Mobilisation during InTensive care feasibility study. VITDALIZE UK Trial: The effect of high-dose vitamin D3 on 28-day mortality in adult critically ill patients with severe vitamin D deficiency: the UK arm of an international multi-centre, placebo-controlled double-blind trial. Recent publications A descriptive survey of operating theatre and intensive care unit temperature management of burn patients in the United Kingdom Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Its Association With Mortality in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Cigarette smoke exposure and alveolar macrophages: mechanisms for lung disease Development of a high sensitivity ELISA detecting IgG, A & M antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein in serum and saliva. Epidemiology of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Critically Ill Children Admitted to Pediatric Intensive Care Units Across England: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study It Is Our Clinical Responsibility to Recognize and Treat Delirium-In Response to "Delirium in Burn Patients: Developing a Mobile Application for Assessment and Diagnosis"[LR1] Assembly Line ICU: what the Long Shops taught us about managing surge capacity for COVID-19 Covert speech comprehension predicts recovery from acute unresponsive states Infrastructure and operating processes of PIONEER, the HDR-UK Data Hub in Acute Care and the workings of the Data Trust Committee Our team Principal Investigators Professor Fang Gao Smith Professor Elizabeth Sapey Professor David Thickett Professor Babu Naidu Dr Rahul Mahida Dr Kylie Belchamber Dr Catherine Atkins Cross-Department Staff Professor Julian Bion Honorary Staff Professor Tony Whitehouse Dr Prasad Nagakumar Dr Jaimin Patel Dr Andy Owen Our Partners Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit Birmingham Health Partners Birmingham Surgical Trials Consortium Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust PIONEER -The Health Data Research Hub for Acute Care University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Press NewsListing1 (NewsListing) had an error during initialisation. Latest videos Birmingham Acute Care Research Group Latest News View latest news from the Acute Care research group Latest Tweets Tweets by @@BacrUoB