Mentor Areas
Strong history of mentorship in critical care, resuscitation, emergency medicine/medicine.
Description:
Circulatory shock after cardiac surgery is common and associated with significant patient morbidity and mortality. Accumulating evidence suggests that current resuscitation strategies do not address the loss of coherence between systemic hemodynamics and the microcirculation, a network of blood vessels <100 μm responsible for end-organ perfusion. The central aim of this research is to provide new knowledge about microcirculatory abnormalities after cardiac surgery, its relationship to traditional resuscitation endpoints, and to elucidate mechanistic pathways that result in postoperative organ injury and death.
Projects will vary, but may include the use of incident dark field microscopy to evaluate sublingual microcirculation, clinical and translational data abstraction in patients with circulatory shock after cardiac surgery.
Preferred Qualifications
Commitment to provide consistent involvement throughout the year.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.