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DR ALASDAIR CORFIELD

MBChB MRCP FCEM DipIMC

Alasdair trained as an Emergency Physician in Scotland & Australia and has an interest in critical care in Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care settings. He currently works as an Emergency Medicine Consultant and as a Consultant in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine with ScotSTAR, delivering critical care transport with the Scottish Ambulance Service. He holds an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor post at the University of Glasgow and leads research and development activity within ScotSTAR. His research interests are in sepsis care and public health aspects of emergency care. In a broader context, he continues to be involved in global health initiatives in these research areas. In his spare time, Alasdair is a keen skier and will ride a bike anywhere on or off road.

Show Notes

Eoghan and Alasdair discuss the current dilemmas in fluid resuscitation in septic patients. Despite many research studies over the past 15 years, many questions still exist: what are the ideal endpoints for volume resuscitation?; what are the best fluids to give?; and when and how to start vasopressors?. Alasdair covers what we know and what we don’t, and how we might get the right answers.

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Research Paper: The surviving sepsis campaign: fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy research priorities in adult patients

To contact Alasdair about participation in the EVIS study: Direct Message on twitter at @al_corfield, or email at Alasdair.Corfield@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

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Summary video

Episode 61: Dilemmas in fluid resuscitation in sepsis

Author: Eoghan Colgan @eoghan_colganSpecial Guest: Alasdair Corfield @al_corfield

06/07/20