CTN Clinical Studies

Studies selected by the ESA Research Committee:

2012

• ETPOS : European Transfusion Practice and Outcome Study: a multi-central evaluation of standard of transfusion care and clinical outcome for elective surgical patients 
  (Chief Investigator: Jens Meier, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany)
• LAS VEGAS : Local ASsessment of VEntilatory management during General Anesthesia for Surgery - prospective observational international cohort study
  (Chief Investigator: Marcus Schultz, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• PLATA : Peripheral nerve block for Prevention of Phantom Limb Pain after Transtibial Amputation 
  (Chief Investigator: Philip Lirk, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2010

• EuSOS : The European Surgical Outcomes Study, an international seven day study of standards of care and clinical outcomes after non-cardiac surgery.
  (Chief Investigator: Rupert Pearse, Royal London Hospital, United Kingdom)
• PERISCOPE : Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for postoperative pulmonary COmPlications in Europe A 7-day data collection, prospective, observational Study
  (Chief Investigator: Jaume Canet, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Spain)
• OBTAIN : The Occurrence of Bleeding and Thrombosis during Antiplatelet therapy In Non-cardiac surgery Study
  (Chief Investigator: Simon Howell, St. James' University Hospital, United Kingdom)
• euCPSP PAIN-OUT : The Incidence and risk factors of chronic post surgical pain, a European follow up Study
  (Chief Investigator: Dominique Fletcher, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, France)

Study awarded with a European Society of Anaesthesiology Research Grant 2011

• PROVHILO : Protective Ventilation During General Anesthesia for Open Abdominal Surgery – a Randomized Controlled Trial
  (Chief Investigator: Marcus Schultz, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands)