Rolf Erlebach receives clinical research award from the German Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

Our BonHanZA team member Rolf Erlebach was honored with the clinical research award at the recent annual congress of the “Deutsche Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin”.

Rolf and Una Pale from the University of Zurich assessed the clinical use of the SpO2/FiO2-ratio for diagnosis and monitoring of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in three large intensive care datasets. The SpO2/FiO2 ratio was recently implemented as an additional hypoxemia criterion in a newly proposed definition of ARDS because of its simplicity and continuous non-invasive measurement. In their work, they could demonstrate several limitations of the SpO2/FiO2 ratio, that are of importance for clinicians at bedside to monitor disease progression and for conduction of clinical trials in ARDS.

If you want to find out more on this interesting topic, read the full paper that was published in Critical Care here.

Congratulations Rolf!