COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium:
A global collaboration born from a global crisis
Established in early 2020, the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium (COVID Critical) is a global alliance of healthcare professionals and researchers committed to identifying the most effective treatments for critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Proudly established and headquartered in Queensland, Australia, our mission is to equip all intensive care clinicians, regardless of nationality, affiliation or economic status, with the best and most up-to-date information to save lives and improve outcomes for patients with COVID-19.
Background
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a paucity of data that could be used to guide the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19. In response, CCRG established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, an international research and data-sharing collaborative, to harness the cumulative experience of intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide.
More than 400 hospitals and affiliated research facilities across 64 countries are contributing to COVID Critical’s world-first database to build an intensive care profile for a disease that was completely unknown before December 2019.
COVID Critical has since created the world’s largest database of COVID-19 ICU patient information to support clinicians on the front line.
COVID Critical Dashboard
At a time where there was so little published about COVID-19, the Dashboard was created to allow access to the COVID Critical Database and give insights into how patients were responding to ICU therapies.
Designed as a tool for clinicians to augment their clinical acumen and experience, the Dashboard offers a Scenario Builder to filter through deidentified data and explore how patients were cared for during the pandemic.
While COVID is behind us, this tool will continue to evolve as a platform for future epidemics and critical care scenarios, and will become an important tool for pandemic preparedness. Start exploring today and be part of this global research initiative.
Are you a participating site? Click the link below to access important study documents.
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How Australian medicos brought the world together to beat a deadly virus
An informal network of the globe’s most brilliant medical minds helped us understand how to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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In the news
A dedicated team at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital has collected COVID health data on critically ill patients across the globe. December 2021.
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What does the Consortium mean to our global community
Established in 2020, the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium was created to support ICUs at the coal face of the pandemic. The Australian-led initiative quickly became so much more.
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Why we need global data to solve global problems
While improving access to healthcare for ethnic minorities is a public health priority in many countries, little is known about how to incorporate information on race, ethnicity, and related social determinants of health into large international studies.
COVID Critical research publications
Other Critical Care Research Group projects
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ICETLab
Cardiovascular technologies from idea to implementation.
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STARLab
Imperative research related to the heart, lungs and ECMO.
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ICU of the Future
Reshaping the experience of intensive care.
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PRIMELab
PRIMELab has a multidisciplinary team of intensivists, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, anaesthetists, pneumologists, nurses, and respiratory therapists.
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The Living Heart Project
Fixing broken hearts with Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE).
