Improving the care of critically ill brain-injured and trauma patients

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Congratulations to Fannie Decoste, Jeff-Marius Dekou Vessou, Tassia Teles Santana de Macedo and Dr. Michael Verret, who received scholarships

Oct 30, 2024 – The CHU de Québec Foundation (Fondation du CHU de Québec) recently awarded the Desjardins Training Scholarships for Research and Innovation. We are very proud to recognize Fannie Decoste, Jeff-Marius Dekou Vessou, Tassia Teles Santana de Macedo, and Dr. Michael Verret, who received the following scholarships: Master’s Category:Fannie Decoste (Supervisor: Dr. Michael… Read more »

Nicolas Beaulieu is awarded a Clinical Research Scholarship

Sep 17, 2024 – Congratulations to Nicolas Beaulieu, who has been awarded a 2024-2025 M.D.-M.Sc. Clinical Research Scholarship by the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec – Université Laval’s clinical research division, in recognition of the quality of his application and his clinical research project.

HEMOTION results published in the NEJM

Jun 13, 2024 – We are very pleased and proud to share that the results of the HEMOTION trial, led by Alexis Turgeon and his co-PIs François Lauzier and Dean Fergusson, has just been published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38869931/ Conducted in 34 hospitals in Canada, the UK, France and Brazil,… Read more »

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Finding better ways to treat neurocritically ill patients

Our mission is to improve bedside management strategies and health outcomes of critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury, by carrying out patient-oriented research and implementing evidence-based informed decision-making.

The Chair

This Chair targets patient-oriented applied clinical research at the bedside of critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Alexis F. Turgeon
Chairholder

Our team is specialized in clinical applied research focused on improving the care of critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury. The goal of our research is to improve bedside practices and health outcomes in this group of patients by using evidence-based, patient-centered decision-making. Our projects are carried out in collaboration with the Canadian Traumatic brain injury Research Consortium (CTRC), the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG), the Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group (PACT) and other groups worldwide.

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