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Protecting the Right Ventricle Network
Meet The Team
Vasileios Zochios
Chair
Consultant in ECMO and Critical Care
Honorary Senior Lecturer
(University of Leicester)
Glenfield Hospital,
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Hakeem Yusuff
Co-chair
Consultant in ECMO, Critical Care and Anaesthesia
Honorary Senior Lecturer
(University of Leicester)
Glenfield Hospital,
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Hannah Conway
Co-chair
Assistant Professor of ACP (Nottingham University)
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Gary Lau
Co-chair
Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia
Glenfield Hospital,
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom
OUR MISSION
The ‘Protecting the Right Ventricle network (PRORVnet)’ is dedicated to conducting high quality research aimed at studying strategies that could potentially mitigate right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in critical illness (eg acute respiratory distress syndrome), during extracorporeal support, cardiac surgery (including heart transplantation), thoracic surgery (including lung transplantation and one-lung ventilation) and sepsis. PRORVnet will also help to build on a scientific foundation for the use of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in predicting RV dysfunction and investigation of novel echocardiographic markers of RV dysfunction.
Justification
Right ventricular dysfunction is an independent predictor of mortality in critical illness and cardiothoracic surgery. Right ventricular protective strategies (mechanical, pharmacological) could theoretically mitigate RV dysfunction and improve outcomes. High quality research is therefore needed in order to characterise RV injury and the natural history of RV dysfunction in different settings.
Our Vision
PRORVnet is committed to synergies and cross-fertilisation between scholars and researchers of the RV leading to collaborative work and a network of centres to facilitate large studies.
