Peter Andrews

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Honorary Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Edinburgh

QUALIFICATIONS:
MD, MB ChB, FRCA

MEMBERSHIPS:
Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Currently Editor-in-chief of The Open Critical Care Medicine Journal (http://www.bentham.org/open/toccmj) and section editor for Current Opinion in Critical Care (Neuroscience).

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research streams include: 'Direct Brain Cooling' studies; Chief Investigator of the EUROTHERM3235 Trial investigating the titrated use of hypothermia after traumatic brain injury in patients with raised intracranial pressure (http://www.eurotherm3235trial.eu); The TOPCAT study, Temperature post out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, assessed patients pre-hospital. The invaluable experience gained from this program will support the development of pre-hospital stroke care studies.

Prof Andrews is the Chief Investigator of the 'SIGNET Trial' (RCT in Scottish Intensive Care Units). This was the first UK non-commercial CT-IMP trial in critical care in the UK.

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