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Intensive Care in Resource Limited Settings

In resource-limited settings, the provision of intensive care presents unique challenges that demand innovative solutions. This topical collection deals with the complexities faced by healthcare professionals in delivering critical care within constrained environments. It explores practical strategies tailored to maximize the impact of available resources while maintaining high standards of patient care.

Editors

  • Prof. Manu Shankar Hari, PhD

    Chair of Translational Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Prof. SHankar-Hari offers an unusual combination of translational research skills, allied to formal research training in basic science (PhD in Immunology), and in health services research (MSc in Epidemiology). His research goal is to enable precision immunomodulation in critically ill adults, with a core hypothesis that modifiable biological networks generate clinical phenotypes, and such networks could be determined by integration of clinical and immunobiology data.

  • Prof. Otavio Ranzani, MD, PhD

    Otavio Ranzani in an intensivist and epidemiologist from Brazil. He is a researcher with a far-reaching overview of current society health problems, with a strong methodological reasoning and international experience in low-and-middle-income countries. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain and Researcher at the Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, Brazil.

  • Prof. Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, MD, PhD

    Director of the HCor Research Institute and Hcor Academy in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet) and is professor in the Postgraduate Program in Anesthesiology, Surgical Sciences and Perioperative Medicine, Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is also a member of the Associação Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva (AMIB), the European Society of Intensive Care, and the American Thoracic Society. His research focuses on randomized clinical trials assessing therapies for critically ill patients.

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