The Center for Critical Care provides evidence-based, patient-centered care. Clinicians and investigators seek to create the safest environments for patient care and define processes to create a better future.
By tracking outcomes of patients and studying the molecular networks that determine patient outcome, this program hopes to change its approach from disease management to prediction and prevention of disease. Furthermore, by establishing changes in basal network activation in individuals, the program is committed to creating personalized approaches to care. Program leader Clay Marsh, MD, is proud of the collaborative nature of the Center’s multidisciplinary physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and
occupational therapists who address acute illness. “We continue to build a unified program in research, education and clinical care to bring new solutions to critically ill patients
through innovation and discovery,” Marsh says.
Critical Care Signature Program highlights of 2007
- Seventeen pulmonary and critical care physicians recognized as America’s Best Doctors at Ohio State are in the Center for Critical Care.
- The Trauma program, under the leadership of Steven Steinberg, MD, received American College of Surgeons recertification as a Level One Trauma Center.
- Ohio State is one of four sites (led by Johns Hopkins University) participating in a phase II clinical trial of the High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) treatment for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Ohio State investigators have enrolled the most patients of any of the sites.
- The Midwest Critical Care Consortium, composed of intensive care units at Ohio State, Case Western, Cleveland Metro, University of Cincinnati, Indiana University and University of Toledo, completed a study on Weakness in ICU Readmission Evaluation (WIRE) led by Naeem Ali, MD. The study showed that weakness markedly increased the rate of ICU readmission and death. The Center for Critical Care provides evidence-based, patient-centered care. Clinicians and investigators seek to create the safest environments for patient care and define processes to create a better future.
- The Comprehensive Wound Center, led by Chandan Sen, PhD, is coordinating a multisite national study on human wound tissue and outcomes to better understand basic mechanisms underlying wound healing in collaboration with National Healing Corporation.
- Daren Knoell, PharmD, identified novel zinc transporters on epithelial cells that may influence host response to tissue injury.
- The Ohio State University was recognized as being among the top 50 respiratory programs in the country for the fourth consecutive year.