Anaesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cardio- and Pulmonary- (pato)physiology/anatomy, Metabonimics, Metabolites, Biochemistry, developement of biomarkers.
The VERIFY-LUNG-INJURY project explores and validate metabolic biomarkers ability to identify patients at risk of developing lung injury with refractory hypoxaemia.
By means of applying metabonomics, the identified lung injury biomarkers are validated. The long term perspectives are to conduct studies which explore the external validity of these biomarkers’ ability to predict lung injury in intensive care patients and patients admitted to the emergency department with shortness of breath, and thereby reduce the morbidity and mortality rates.