The University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences has been awarded approximately $100 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to continue a clinical research program that is advancing trauma care.
University of PittsburghSep 25 2024 The University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences has been awarded approximately $100 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to continue a clinical research program that is advancing trauma care.
With the funding renewal, the LITES Network also will begin its tenth study, the Plasma Resuscitation Early for Evaluating Volume and Endotheliopathy of Thermal Injury trial. The trial will launch at UPMC Mercy, which has one of the nation's leading burn centers, and include about a dozen more sites in North America. The goal of the PREEVEnT trial is to determine if giving plasma as early as possible to burn patients leads to better outcomes than standard of care.
Co-principal investigator Francis Guyette, M.D., M.P.H., professor of emergency medicine at Pitt, medical director of STAT MedEvac and emergency physician at UPMC, explained that, until about the past decade, research and advances in care in the pre-hospital trauma environment have lagged the rest of medicine.
The University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences has been awarded approximately $100 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to continue a clinical research program that is advancing trauma care. Since its initial launch in 2016, the LITES Network has completed five studies with the potential to change the way trauma care is practiced. These include several observational studies to learn how trauma injuries are treated in the U.S. and see the outcomes of different interventions in certain patients, as well as trials to compare giving platelets to help with blood clotting early in injuries with usual care and a trial to improve pain management.
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