Future Directions for ESAIC acting as Academic Contract Research Organisation
Background
The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Clinical Trial Network has been initiated on 2010 at the request of the ESAIC Research Committee and approval by the ESAIC Board of Directors with the primary aim to provide an infrastructure for Institutions, clinicians and scientists allowing to work across borders to improve the care of patients in the field of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-Operative Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Medicine. International networks all over the world have demonstrated the advantages of collaboration to address and answer clinically relevant research questions. Long-term collaborative relationships within research, education and clinical practice require dedicated resources and infrastructure enabling access to the entire clinical community.
Progressing with needs
Entrusted by hundreds of hospitals, academic, and government organisations worldwide, ESAIC represents a powerful and rapidly growing alternative to study organisation and management for clinical research. As a non-profit organisation, ESAIC provides a uniquely efficient, flexible, and low-cost way of managing different types of clinical studies.
The ESAIC A-CRO is focusing on three highly interrelated actions:
- Support studies identifying relevant research questions related mainly to Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-Operative Medicine, Emergency Medicine or Pain Medicine, but also to other specialities (nutrition, respiratory diseases, transfusion, thrombosis, cardiology, etc.) when they are related to anaesthesiology
- Foster collaborations between ESAIC members of various countries as well as with other organisations to improve patient outcome and anaesthesia Intensive Car Medicine, Peri-Operative Medicine, Emergency Medicine or Pain Medicine practice.
- Enforce quality and Good Clinical Practice in the study coordination support and data management
Ongoing Projects
Studies in preparation are related to the HES Project. HES or Hydroxyethyl starch is one of the most frequently used colloids for volume substitution.
Trauma HES Study
PragmaTic, prospEctive, randomized, controlled, double-blind, mulTi-centre, multinational study on the safety and efficacy of a 6% HydroxYethyl Starch (HES) solution versus an electrolyte solution in trauma patients
Study Sponsor: Fresenius Kabi
Download Study FlyerPerioperative HES Study
Prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blind, multi-centre, multinational study on the safety and efficacy of a 6% Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) sOlution versus an Electrolyte solutioN In patients undergoing eleCtive abdominal Surgery
Study Sponsor: Fresenius Kabi
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