Summary
Professor Stephen Brett is head for research for the Directorate of Anaesthetics and Critical Care within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, leading the Centre for Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care Research and Professor of Critical Care at Imperial College. The Centre is developing a unique agenda of patient focused projects along the entirety of patient journey, be it in surgery or critical illness, and of course resuscitation; these projects range from epidemiology and public health, through clinical trials to evaluation of the impact of surgery on chronic diseases and of course technology evaluation. The Centre supports many Comprehensive Research Network portfolio studies and is supported through this and the Biomedical Research Centre Scheme.
Professor Brett's personal research interests are in understanding and optimizing long term outcomes after critical illness. He is chief investigator for a number of clinical studies both locally and nationally. He recently lead the NICE guidline development group which published the guideline "Rehabilitation after Critical Illness" (http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/CG083).
Prof. Brett is President of the Intensive Care Society and is an Editor of the journal Critical Care. In addition he serves on a number of Department of Health advisory groups, and provides consultancy to industry in the fields of clinical trial design and supervision, and marketing.
Publications
Journals
Stephens J, Wong J, Broomhead R, et al., 2020, Raised serum amylase in COVID-19 patients may not be associated with pancreatitis, British Journal of Surgery, ISSN:0007-1323
Benger JR, Lazaroo MJ, Clout M, et al., 2020, Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months, Resuscitation, Vol:157, ISSN:0300-9572, Pages:74-82
Gasparini M, Khan S, Patel JM, et al., 2020, Renal impairment and its impact on clinical outcomes in patients who are critically ill with COVID-19: a multicentre observational study, Anaesthesia, ISSN:0003-2409
Labeau SO, Afonso E, Benbenishty J, et al., 2020, Prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of pressure injuries in adult intensive care unit patients: the DecubICUs study, Intensive Care Medicine, ISSN:0342-4642
Gross J, Borkowski J, Brett S, 2020, Patient or family perceived deterioration in functional status and outcome after Intensive Care admission: a retrospective cohort analysis of routinely collected data, Bmj Open, Vol:10, ISSN:2044-6055, Pages:1-6