Urinary Assays for Predicting Severe AKI

New Publication Sussex Critical is pleased to announce a new publication in the prestigious journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney360. Acute Kidney Injury is a potentially life-threatening disease that remains notoriously difficult to diagnose and prevent. This paper evaluates a potentially useful urinary assay in predicting Severe AKI. The urinary assay of C-C […]

Emergency Department Crowding

Emergency department (ED) crowding has significant adverse consequences, however, there is no widely accepted tool to measure it. In a prospective study involving ED nurses and clinicians we validated the National Emergency Department Overcrowding score (NEDOCS) which uses routinely collected ED data. This work was presented in Prague at EUSEM and published in the EMJ: […]

Marathon Runners and AKI

Our team at the Brighton Marathon have a long record performing Exercise research with clinical applications. Collaborating with Physiologist Dr Alan Richardson at the University of Brighton, the Armed Forces and Imperial and Loughborough, we continue to explore important questions around health and endurance events. In 2020 we presented a decade of experience with Marathon […]

Critical Thinking Begins

Critical care is changing. The particular demand for specialised high end care is increasing and will continue to increase in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the existing critical care resources and encouraged spending to increase the capacity of care beyond that which was possible before. Respiratory viruses not only target our individual physiological […]