ExPRES SEPSIS

Early Prediction of Severe Sepsis

Aim

To derive a biomarker to allow the identification of patients with confirmed sepsis, and risk stratify patients at risk of developing severe sepsis

Trial Design

A Prospective, multi-centre cohort observational study

Chief Investigator

Professor Tim Walsh, Critical Care Research Group

Local PI

Professor Tim Walsh

Research Team

  • EMERGE Research team
  • Critical Care Research Group
  • Rossi Lab, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh

Eligibility criteria (summary)

Patients who present to the Emergency Department with suspected sepsis

Further information

http://www.ccm.mvm.ed.ac.uk/

http://www.cir.ed.ac.uk/

Status: closed

Start Date

January 2014

Coordinated by

University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian

End date

July 2015