Research Focus

Critical Care & Respiratory Medicine

Area of Research

Research, development and validation of models to improve triage, diagnosis and treatment of patients in the emergency setting.

•    Effect of Physiotherapy in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department after a Fall Event: A Brief Intervention Focusing on Patient Reported Outcomes 
•    Effect of Physiotherapy in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Nonspecific Lower Back Pain: A Brief Intervention Focusing on Patient Reported Outcomes

International Projects:
-    OVID:
Enoxaparin for primary Thromboprophylaxis in Ambulatory Patients with Coronavirus: the Multicenter Randomized Controlled OVID Trial
Link: https://medicalforum.ch/de/detail/doi/smf.2020.08566
https://new.usz.ch/studie/ovid-studie/

-    SAFE-SSPE:
Clinical Surveillance vs. Anticoagulation for Low-risk Patients with Isolated Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism: A Multicenter Randomized Placebo-Controlled Non-Inferiority Trial
Link: https://www.safesspe.ch/about-safe-sspe/information-about-the-study/

-    PROFUNDUS:
Integration of pre-test PRObability, Focused cardiac UltrasouNd and D-dimer for diagnosis of acUte aortic Syndromes (PROFUNDUS trial)
 

National Collaborations

• Prof Dr. med Marc Righini, Chief of the Divison of Angiology and Haemostasis, Geneva University Hospital 
• Prof. Dr. med. Nils Kucher, Angiologie USZ
• Prof. Dr. med Drahomir Aujesky,  Director Department of General Internal medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital
• Prof. Dr. med. Beat Müller, Internal Medicine, Medical University Clinic, Kantonsspital Aarau
• Prof. Dr. med. Michael Christ, LUKS Luzern 

International Collaborations

• Prof. Dr. med Frederikus A. Klok, Leiden University Medical Center
• Prof. Dr. med. Ralph Hertwig, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Rationality
• Prof. Dr. med. Raphael Twerenbold, University of Basel, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg
• Prof. Dr. med. John Kellett, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
• Dr. med. MD PhD. Mikkel Bradbrand, Hospital of South West Jutland, Denmark
• Dr. med. MD PhD Brett Burstein, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Canada

• Negative X-Ray of pelvis followed by CT examination – frequency of surgical treatment in CT- detected fractures of the pelvis
• Simple Prognostic Score: Validation of a safer discharge Score for the Emergency Department
• Risk stratification and evaluation of risk factors regarding mortality of emergency patients
• The Impact of frailty-attuned care in the Emergency Department