• Innovation
    Promotion of technological and clinical innovation in critical care
  • Grip
    In-vitro and in-vivo research adherent to clinical practice and relevant for ICU every-day activities
  • Sharing
    International spread of ideas, innovation and research

Our philosophy

The GRIP (Group for Research in Intensive care in Pavia) is founded in 2015 by a group of intensivists working at Intensive Care Units of Policlinico S. Matteo in Pavia. We are a group of young doctors and researchers who dedicated in the last years great energy, enthusiasm and time to develop new ideas, improve technology and optimize quality of care for critical patients. Our group is characterized by strong international connections for both clinical research and technological developement. Our missions are:

 

  1. 1
    Innovation

    Intensive care units are highly technological; therefore, development of innovative instruments and optimization of existing ones can have a deep clinical impact. We have strong national and international collaborations with research and development sections of industries involved in the field and with many universities in order to push technology forward.

  2. 2
    Grip

    Our aim is to promote and support a research projects gripping the real world. First, this means we support research with high clinical impact and strong everyday applicability. Second, we support researchers, offering work possibilities for young professionals.

  3. 3
    Sharing

    We aim to share our ideas, projects and results with scientific community; we have strong national and international research cooperation and  researcher exchange programs with multiple university centers.

Perioperative Renal Ultrasonography of Arterio-to-Venous Coupling Predicts Postoperative Complications after Major Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery

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J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12(15), 5013; FREE FULL TEXT  https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12155013 Claudia Brusasco, Guido Tavazzi, Giada Cucciolini, Pierpaolo Di Nicolò, Adrian Wong, Antonia Di Domenico, Federico Germinale, Federico Dotta, Marco Micali, Federico Coccolini, Gregorio Santori, Federico Dazzi, Carlo Introini and Francesco Corradi  

Abstract

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) with concomitant venous and arterial Doppler assessment enables clinicians to assess organ-specific blood supply. To date, no studies have investigated the usefulness of including a comprehensive perioperative POCUS assessment of patients undergoing major laparoscopic surgery. The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the combined venous and arterial renal flow evaluation, measured at different time points of perioperative period, may represent a clinically useful non-invasive method to predict postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after major laparoscopic urologic surgery. The secondary outcome was represented by the development of any postoperative complication at day 7. We included 173 patients, subsequently divided for analysis depending on whether they did (n = 55) or did not (n = 118) develop postoperative AKI or any complications within the first 7 days. The main results of the present study were that: (1) the combination of arterial hypoperfusion and moderate-to-severe venous congestion inferred by POCUS were associated with worst outcomes (respectively, HR: 2.993, 95% CI: 1.522–5.884 and HR: 8.124, 95% CI: 3.542–18, p < 0.001); (2) high intra-operative abdominal pressure represents the only independent determinant of postoperative severe venous congestion (OR: 1.354, 95% CI: 1.017–1.804, p = 0.038); (3) the overall number of complications relies on the balance between arterial inflow and venous outflow in order to ensure the adequacy of peripheral perfusion; and (4) the overall reliability of splanchnic perfusion assessment by Doppler is high with a strong inter-rater reliability (ICC: 0.844, 95% CI: 0.792–0.844). The concomitant assessment of arterial and venous Doppler patterns predicts postoperative complications after major laparoscopic urologic surgery and may be considered a useful ultrasonographic biomarker to stratify vulnerable patients at risk for development of postoperative complications.
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