Research Initiatives and Team

Neurocritical Care Research Initiatives

Members of the Neurocritical Care Program at Phoenix Children’s lead multiple federal and foundation-based research studies that allow us to look for unique biomarkers that may be signs of brain injury or brain recovery. This information can be used to improve care in the future.

Our research grants include:

• U.S. Department of Defense funding to look at whether we can predict who will develop epilepsy, along with who will do worse with this condition
• American Heart Association funding to study which patients who undergo heart surgery with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are at risk for brain injury
• University of Arizona Valley Research Partnership and Innovators in Neuroscience in Kids Foundation funding to investigate for electroencephalographic biomarkers of covert consciousness in children with acute brain injuries

We also are using big data in our collaboration with experts at Arizona State University to detect signs of brain injury before they occur using multimodality neurologic monitoring.

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