Research

Growing our research efforts

Department of Critical Care faculty members are active researchers making significant contributions to the latest in evidence-based critical care. The Department's Research Director, Dr. Kristina Krmpotic has been leading the program with a focus on collaboration while motivating non-career researchers to explore principal investigator roles and idealize their research project interests. Many of our faculty have research projects currently underway.

Areas of study include:

• critical care pharmacology
• resuscitation and severe sepsis
• acute lung injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• rates of, barriers to and facilitating factors for mobilization
• influenza
• post-intubation outcomes