Research priorities in Pediatric Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure
If NHLBI set research priorities for pediatric cardiomyopathy and heart failure, it would help investigators better align their application with institute goals.
If NHLBI set research priorities for pediatric cardiomyopathy and heart failure, it would help investigators better align their application with institute goals.
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is responsible for over 1 million hospital admissions and about 100,000 deaths per year. We still do not know the best antibiotic regimen to treat CAP. Retrospective studies and cohort studies support giving macrolides, while randomized controlled studies (essentially all done by pharma) have not shown benefit of macrolides. Guidelines allow either a macrolide or a quinolone.
Goal 4: Develop Workforce and Resources
How can we insure that there are sufficient numbers of clinical scientists over the next 20 years?
Goal 4: Develop Workforce and Resources
Would an NIH trans-IC office of critical care research improve coordination and strategic planning across?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
Can novel therapeutics including cell-based therapy be tested in patients with severe acute lung injury (P/F <200) and shock (need for vasopressors) since these are the patients with the highest mortality (> 30%) based on NHLBI ARDS Network data?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
Can novel extracorporeal devices that remove carbon dioxide be tested to limit or avoid positive pressure ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure from COPD?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
Will adaptive trial design improve clinical research for acute lung injury?
Does the addition of albumin to fluid conservative management of ALI (ARDSnet FACTT trial protocol, Wiedemann et al) further shorten ventilator time and/or improve survival?