Professor C Louise Thwaites
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VITAL project
The VITAL project aims to reduce morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases in Asia by using innovative technology and clinical approaches
Research groups
C Louise Thwaites
BSc MBBS MRCP MD DMSMed MLCOM
Associate Professor
- Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Emerging Infection
Louise Thwaites is a clinical researcher and member of the Emerging Infections group at OUCRU. She is an associate professor in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford.
Her research focuses on the care of critically ill patients in resource-restricted settings and she has spent much of her career engaged in research into tetanus. This includes conducting a large randomized controlled trials of magnesium sulphate and intrathecal tetanus antitoxin in tetanus, investigation into the underlying pathophysiology and long-term outcome following tetanus and, trying to understand which populations are most at risk of tetanus and ways to improve vaccination uptake these communities. More broadly, she is interested in ways of improving care of critically ill patients using new technologies and forging new collaborations to achieve this. Her current role in the VITAL project involves developing new devices and technologies for use in diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation following diseases such as tetanus, sepsis and dengue.
Louise is an expert consultant to the World Health Organization. She is a member of the Crit Care Asia network of the steering committee of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Association, leading its guidelines, policy and quality working group. She is a member of the sepsis in resource-limited settings–expert consensus recommendations group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit.
Louise has published more than 90 articles in international journals.
Recent publications
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Mixed methods study protocol for combining stakeholder-led rapid evaluation with near real-time continuous registry data to facilitate evaluations of quality of care in intensive care units
The Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA) None. et al, (2023)
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Wearable devices for remote monitoring of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Vietnam
Chau NVV. et al, (2022), Wellcome Open Research, 7, 257 - 257
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Climate change and health in Southeast Asia – defining research priorities and the role of the Wellcome Trust Africa Asia Programmes
Choisy M. et al, (2022)
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Climate change and health in Southeast Asia – defining research priorities and the role of the Wellcome Trust Africa Asia Programmes
Choisy M. et al, (2022)
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Effectiveness of Continuous Endotracheal Cuff Pressure Control for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Respiratory Infections: An Open-Label Randomized, Controlled Trial
Dat VQ. et al, (2022), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 74, 1795 - 1803