Intensive Care Research

Amsterdam

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About Intensive Care Research in the Amsterdam UMC

The ICU research group of the Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands is focused on conducting innovative high quality research on various topics, including but not limited to ARDS, sepsis, post-anoxic brain injury, machine learning, mechanical ventilation and lung ultrasound. To obtain this goal we combine preclinical research in the laboratory of experimental intensive care and anesthesiology (LEICA), clinical studies ranging from observational cohort studies, to diagnostic accuracy studies and randomized controlled trial and data from large registries.

Intensive Care Research

Our studies

  • Design: Multicenter International RCT

  • Patients: 538 patients with moderate to severe ARDS

  • Intervention: Lung ultrasound guided personalized ventilation

  • Principal Investigator: Lieuwe D.J. Bos

  • Status: Recruiting and looking for centers

  • Design: Multicenter RCT

  • Patients: 1000 patients receiving invasive ventilation >24 h

  • Intervention: Lung ultrasound guided deresuscitation

  • Principal Investigator: Marcus J. Schultz

  • Status: Recruiting

  • Design: Multicenter RCT

  • Patients: ICU patients with expected invasive ventilation > 48 h

  • Intervention: Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (Cough Assist)

  • Principal Investigator: Prof. F. Paulus & Prof. M.J. Schultz

  • Status: In progress

  • Design: Prospective International Multinational Observational Cohort Study

  • Patients: Critically ill pediatric patients necessitating ventilatory support > 12 hours

  • Aim: To describe the worldwide practice of ventilatory support in critically ill pediatric patients

  • Principal Investigator: Martin C. J. Kneyber

  • Status: In preparation

  • Design: Multicenter double blind international randomized clinical trial

  • Patients: 1806 patients scheduled for major minimally invasive abdominal surgery

  • Intervention: Individualized high PEEP strategy with recruitment maneuvers

  • Principal Investigator: Markus W. Hollmann

  • Status: Recruiting and looking for centers

  • Design: Multicenter international observational cohort study

  • Patients: Pediatric patients undergoing invasive ventilation in the operating room

  • Principal Investigator: Jorinde Polderman en David van Meenen

  • Status: Recruiting and looking for centers

News

9 augustus 2023

200 CONFIDENCE patients included

200 patients have been included in the CONFIDENCE trial! With the start of new centers, inclusion rate is increasing rapidly.

26 september 2023

PRoVENT-PED has started.

We are currently performing the pilot studies for feasibility in two Dutch hospitals: the Amsterdam University Medical Center (AUMC) and the University Medical Center of Groningen (UMCG). Furthermore, we started with recruiting centers, national coordinators and local coordinators who are interested in participating.

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Publications

17 februari 2023

Lung Ultrasound Prediction Model for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study.

Smit MR, Hagens LA, Heijnen NFL, Pisani L, Cherpanath TGV, Dongelmans DA, de Grooth HS, Pierrakos C, Tuinman PR, Zimatore C, Paulus F, Schnabel RM, Schultz MJ, Bergmans DCJJ, Bos LDJ; DARTS Consortium. Lung Ultrasound Prediction Model for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Feb 15. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202210-1882OC. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36790377.

18 oktober 2022

Acute respiratory distress syndrome: causes, pathophysiology, and phenotypes

Bos LDJ, Ware LB. Acute respiratory distress syndrome: causes, pathophysiology, and phenotypes. Lancet. 2022 Oct 1;400(10358):1145-1156. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01485-4. Epub 2022 Sep 4. PMID: 36070787.

18 oktober 2022

Lung Ultrasound Assessment of Focal and Non-focal Lung Morphology in Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Pierrakos C, Smit MR, Pisani L, Paulus F, Schultz MJ, Constantin JM, Chiumello D, Mojoli F, Mongodi S, Bos LDJ. Lung Ultrasound Assessment of Focal and Non-focal Lung Morphology in Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Front Physiol. 2021 Sep 14;12:730857. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.730857. PMID: 34594240; PMCID: PMC8476947.

18 oktober 2022

Immunomodulation and endothelial barrier protection mediate the association between oral imatinib and mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients

de Brabander J, Duijvelaar E, Schippers JR, Smeele PJ, Peters-Sengers H, Duitman JW, Aman J, Bogaard HJ, van der Poll T, Bos LDJ; CounterCOVID study group. Immunomodulation and endothelial barrier protection mediate the association between oral imatinib and mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients. Eur Respir J. 2022 Jul 26:2200780. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00780-2022. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35896211; PMCID: PMC9301934.

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