Chronobiology for babies?
In the latest edition of Early Human Development, Helen McKenna and Erasmus Medical Center’s Professor of Neonatology, Irwin Reiss, present the arguments for supporting newborn circadian rhythms in order to improve…
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iOPS published
Oxygen is a drug, and like any other, we must determine the appropriate dose. https://perioperativemedicinejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13741-018-0098-3 This collaboration between trainee networks, PLAN (Pan-London Perioperative Audit and Research Network) and SPARC (Southcoast…
MitOx Lab goes sailing
MitOx Lab celebrates a year of hard work and achievement by the Royal Free Intensive Care Research Team (Dan Martin, Helder Filipe, Christine Eastgate, Margaret McNeil and Jia Stevens) by…
Explaining the impact of shiftwork to BBC News
25th July 2018 Helen McKenna worked with the BBC and the Royal Free Hospital ICU to create an 90 second film about the current evidence-based strategies to help people cope…
Major surgery and our Mitochondria
Preliminary data from Dr Jia Stevens’ COSMOS study was published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia this month. Her work brings anaesthetists one step closer to understanding their favourite organelle.…
Chronobiology in the Volvo Ocean Race
Dr Dan Martin visits chronobiologist and collaborator Professor van der Horst on board the AkzoNobel racing boat, to learn about the team’s work in defining the human X factor during…
Harnessing chronobiology during surgery
Our editorial, which highlights how we can promote better outcomes for patients undergoing surgery by harnessing their circadian rhythms, has been published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(18)30375-1/abstract
Clinical chronobiology in critical illness
April 2018 Overview of the application of chronobiology to critical illness published in Critical Care. https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-018-2041-x
