13/10/2010

The ICU team at Hospital Vall d'Hebron and the research group of severe sepsis and respiratory infection in its Research Institute (VHIR), coordinated by Dr. Jordi Rello, have presented important developments at the Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM), that has taken place these days in Barcelona with the participation of more than 6,000 intensivists. In addition to Dr. Rello, Mercedes Palomar, Joan Ramon Masclans, Oriol Roca and other senior intensivists from Vall D'Hebron have lectured on developments in the treatment of patients in the ICU. This team, a reference in this speciality, has been the group that has submitted more communications in the ESICM Congress. Both his research team, and many other researchers, have benefited from the European registry of cases of influenza virus A (H1N1), which has been coordinating by Dr. Rello, CIBERES researcher who led the field of intensive care for the most intense period of the pandemic. Registration has allowed to collect information and design studies that are now beginning to be analyzed. These results, no doubt, will provide valuable information and experience for future epidemics caused by viruses similar or even seasonal flu itself.