ICMx NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Pre-clinical Sepsis Study Guidelines
OPEN ACCESS link + icTV video & podcast interview with the author
A number of negative or neutral sepsis clinical trials in recent years have cast a shadow of cynicism over the potential of future studies. Experts have reiterated the need to go back to the drawing board (so to speak) and re-focus on basic science with pre-clinical trials. However, one of the criticisms related to this type of sepsis research is a lack of homogeneity in animal study design.
A group of experts from the field formed a conference in Vienna in May 2017 to address this deficit, and have drafted a set of guidelines, defined as the “Minimum Quality Threshold in Pre-Clinical Sepsis Studies” (MQTiPSS). The overall aim? To enhance the translational value of these models.
A review of their resulting paper has now been published in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (ICMx), Infection and Shock.
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READ THE ARTICLE ~ Marcin F. Osuchowski et al. Minimum quality threshold in pre-clinical sepsis studies (MQTiPSS): an international expert consensus initiative for improvement of animal modeling in sepsis. Original publication: 14 August 2018.
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