Research

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Neurocritical care

The focus of our clinical research is pediatric neurocritical care with special interest in neuromonitoring and traumatic brain injury and associated outcomes.

Neuromonitoring

EEG-based neuromonitoring is our key interest and the need to further explore this method in the context of pediatric intensive care gave the impulse for the formation of this research group in 2020. Learn more about the NICE project.

Traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury as one of the most important causes for acquired brain injury in children has evolved as a second focus of our group, with two exciting projects going on: HOPE-TBI and SaVeBRAIN.Kids

Intensive Care Follow-Up

The growing awareness for long-term sequelae and the need for dedicated care in PICU survivors lead us to initiate a PICU aftercare program that is evaluated as part of the EPPIC project.

Epidemiology and Public Health

We apply epidemiological methods, e.g. by exploiting routine health care data sets, to investigate pediatric critical and neurocritical illness at population level. Insights from this research in turn inspire and drive our clinical research. Check out HOPE-TBI and the PIA network.

Related fields

Besides our focus, we participate in studies on other areas from Pediatric Intensive Care via multicenter projects to support our fellow researchers and help to advance the field.

We also support and collaborate with researchers from adjacent fields like Neonatology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Neurology, and Emergency Care in local and multicenter projects like FAB.NRW.