Acute Care Research Acute care is any unplanned healthcare contact or escalation in hospital healthcare requirements. It includes not only front door medicine and surgery, but peri and post-operative and critical care for adults and children. Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre is an internationally unique, multi-disciplinary and integrated collaborative group of healthcare professionals, clinical academics, scientists and researchers with a shared mission to improve outcomes for the high number of patients seeking acute care. Our Theme Leads BACR Theme Lead Dr Dhruv Parekh Associate Professor in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine View profile BACR Deputy Theme Lead Dr Aaron Scott Associate Professor in Respiratory Science View profile Our Research Studies CATALYST Trial to test new therapies for patients hospitalised due to suspected or confirmed severe COVID-19 A Randomised Controlled Trial to investigate the effectiveness of Thoracic Epidural and Paravertebral Blockade In reducing Chronic Post- Thoracotomy Pain: 2 The PERMIT study. Paediatric Early Rehabilitation/Mobilisation during InTensive care feasibility study. VITDALIZE UK Trial: The effect of high-dose vitamin D3 on 28-day mortality in adult critically ill patients with severe vitamin D deficiency: the UK arm of an international multi-centre, placebo-controlled double-blind trial. Recent publications [LR1] Our team Principal Investigators Professor Fang Gao Smith Professor Elizabeth Sapey Professor David Thickett Professor Babu Naidu Dr Rahul Mahida Dr Kylie Belchamber Dr Catherine Atkins Cross-Department Staff Professor Julian Bion Honorary Staff Professor Tony Whitehouse Dr Prasad Nagakumar Dr Jaimin Patel Dr Andy Owen Our Partners Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit Birmingham Surgical Trials Consortium Press NewsListing1 (NewsListing) had an error during initialisation. Latest videos Birmingham Acute Care Research Group Latest News View latest news from the Acute Care research group Latest Tweets