Dr Gareth Clegg

Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh & Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Research Interests:
Loving life. Being awesome

Qualifications:
MB ChB BSc MRCP PhD FCEM

Twitter:
@rrg_edinburgh

Key Publications

[2]      Clegg GR, Lyon RM, James S, Branigan HP, Bard EG, Egan GJ. Dispatch-assisted CPR: Where are the hold-ups during calls to emergency dispatchers? A preliminary analysis of caller–dispatcher interactions during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using a novel call transcription technique. Resuscitation 2014;85:49–52.

[3]     Mitchell K, Short S, Clegg G. THE SHOCKING TRUTH—TIME BETWEEN DEFIBRILLATION ATTEMPTS DURING PRE-HOSPITAL RESUSCITATION OF VF CARDIAC ARREST. Emergency Medicine Journal 2014;31:781–2.

[4]     Lyon RM, Crookston C, Crawford A, Clegg GR. Bridging The Gap-Prehospital Video Analysis of an Autopulse Extrication System to Enable Quality Resuscitation Whilst Moving Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients. vol. 128, 2013, pp. 2721–1.

[5]     Clarke S, Lyon RM, Short S, Crookston C, Clegg GR. A specialist, second-tier response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: setting up TOPCAT2. Emergency Medicine Journal 2013:emermed–2012.

[6]     Lyon RM, Clarke S, Milligan D, Clegg GR. Resuscitation feedback and targeted education improves quality of pre-hospital resuscitation in Scotland. Resuscitation 2012;83:70–5.

Grants

“The First “First Responder”: Understanding bystander actions,

experience, and well-being in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest” £21,000 UKRC 2014

“Streaming video to augment decision support for SAS treating COPD and OHCA in Edinburgh” £48,900 CHSS 2014

“Introduction of paramedic led echo in life support (ELS) into the pre-hospital environment Prehospital Ultrasound” £19,700, UKRC 2014

“Optimisation of pre-hospital resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using a novel method of resuscitation analysis to facilitate training and performance evaluation”

OHCA pre-hospital video £89,000, CHSS 2012

“TOPCAT2 OHCA response team” £8,500 CHSS 2011

Trials

This study will investigate how we can help treat patients suffering from shock by the targeted use of specific fluids and medications. Shock is an acute medical condition in which the organs and tissues of the body are not receiving an adequate flow of blood. It is associated with a fall in blood pressure, a build-up in waste products and can result in serious organ damage and even death. We hope to improve our ability to treat shock by evaluating fluid management from the blood samples of a group of healthy volunteers.

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The Prior Study

Calculating Osmotic Pressure in Healthy Patients

This study contributes to the work of Dr Frank Prior who is developing a tool to be used in the treatment of shock.
It is known that shock creates a set of internal conditions that affect vasculature and that these conditions can vary over time and are dependent on the type of shock. This tool reveals the condition of the vasculature and therefore informs which fluid and drugs are best advised for that patient at that time.

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COPS

Calculating Osmotic Pressure in Healthy Patients (COPs)

While considerable efforts have been made to determine the best ways to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for persons suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and also to understand what the physical and psychological impact on the victim might be, very little is known about what actually occurs when a lay bystander is suddenly confronted by someone in cardiac arrest.

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First “First Responder” Study

The First “First Responder”: Understanding bystander actions, experience, and well-being in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest