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Friday, 04/27/2018
2 IAMR Group Research Projects have been awarded by SEPAR in the 2017 Call for Grant Applications
The SEPAR 2017 Grants of Fundació Respira (Spanish Lung Foundation) will invest around 600.000 euros in research
The IAMR research team has been successful in the 2017 call for the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) - Fundació Respira grants (http://www.separ.es). Miquel Ferrer and Enric Barbeta obtained funding to carry out their research projects in the field of respiratory diseases.
Dr. Miquel Ferrer obtained a SEPAR 2017 grant for his project Reducing the duration of antibiotic treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with high risk class and initially appropriate response. A randomised clinical trial. The aims for this trial are: 1) To assess the efficacy of 5-day antibiotic treatment compared to the usual duration of more than 7 days, in a non-inferiority design, in terms of “mortality, hospital readmission or reinitiating of antibiotic treatment at 30 days”, in a cohort of patients with community-acquired pneumonia with a PSI risk class IV-V who present an initially adequate response to treatment (clinical stability within the first 4 days of treatment alter admission); 2) To assess the efficacy of 5-day antibiotic treatment compared to the usual duration of more than 7 days on hospital lenght of stay and antibiotic-free days at 30 days and; 3) To investigate the occurrence of adverse events related to the use of study antibiotics
Enric Barbeta obtained a SEPAR 2017 grant for his project Driving Pressure and Inflammatation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. The aim of this project is to analyze the association between driving pressure and pulmonary and systemic inflammation as well as the severity of multiorgan failure in patients with ARDS undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation.
SEPAR-Fundació Respira awards a number of grants each year with the aim of encouraging research in the field of respiratory disease.