Emergency, Cardiovascular and Critical Care Research Group (ECCCR)

The Emergency, Cardiovascular and Critical Care Research (ECCCR) Group is part of the Centre for Health and Social Care based at the St George’s Hospital site in Tooting. We work closely with research and clinical partners in the NHS (particularly St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the London Ambulance Service) and collaborators in partner universities including Warwick and Swansea. We have strong international links, for example the European Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiovascular Care Association.

Our research spans clinical, organisational and systems-level research using a range of methodologies in multiple health service contexts with a multidisciplinary approach. Our portfolio includes collaboration on major trials in cardiac arrest, use of registries in heart attack care, mixed methods studies on topics such as data sharing across organisational boundaries within emergency care and the impact of new professional roles in urgent and emergency department care, and qualitative research into definitions of professionalism in the ambulance service. We are keen to help develop the next generation of research leaders and particularly welcome applicants for pre-doctoral fellowships and PhD.

Objectives:

1. To undertake research that has real impact for patients and services delivering emergency, cardiovascular and critical care.
2. To become the ‘go to point’ for NHS and clinical partners as a forum for collaborative research activity, to test out new research ideas and support study design and grant applications
3. To build critical mass over time to ‘develop the brand’ and attract external funding and collaborations.
4. To attract and support research students, particularly NIHR pre-doctoral, doctoral and other fellowships , to develop the next generation of research leaders in ECCC
5. To provide opportunities for clinical colleagues in emergency, cardiovascular and critical care to join research projects in planning or already underway, to gain exposure and experience.
6. To improve student experience at our partner universities by fostering a culture of research informed teaching and learning by exposing predominantly teaching focused colleagues to the research process.

Members

Leadership team

Professor Tom Quinn

Dr Mary Halter, Associate Professor

Professor Heather Jarman, Clinical Academic Lead, Emergency Department, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Rachael Fothergill, Head of Research and Audit, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Internal members

• Dr Peter Beaumont, Senior Lecturer (Paramedic Science) and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine – prehospital care
• Jennifer Egubinke, Senior Lecturer (School of Nursing)
• Lucia Gavalova, Research Fellow and project manager for PHECG2 study
• Rachael Lear, Senior Lecturer (School of Nursing) – vascular nursing
• Emma Menzies-Gow, Senior Lecturer (School of Nursing) – cardiac nursing
• Johannes Mellinghoff, Senior Lecturer (School of Nursing) –critical care nursing
• Paul Newcombe, Associate Professor (School of Nursing) –emergency nursing
• Dr Dimitra Nikoletou, Associate Professor (Dept of Rehabilitation, SAMHS) – cardiorespiratory rehabilitation
• Dr Gillian Pedley, Associate Professor (School of Nursing)
• Alan Rice, Associate Professor (Paramedic Science, SAMHS) – prehospital care
• Adam Smith, Senior Lecturer (Paramedic Education)
• Dr Ruth Wood, Associate Professor (School of Education)
• Dr Chao Wang, senior lecturer in health and social care statistics

 

External members:

• Elaine Cole, Director of Research and Innovation, Pan London Major Trauma System, Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London
• Karen Gardner, Operations Manager, London Ambulance Trust
• Dr Ghassan Mourad, Senior Lecturer, Division of Nursing, Linkoping University, Sweden
• Dr Roksolana Starodub, Lecturer, Kings College London

 

Postgraduate Research Students

• Selina Jarvis
• Rasmus Meyer Lyngby
• John Renshaw

 

Patient and Public Involvement

• Mr Glenn Davies
• Ms Elizabeth Lloyd Dehler

 

Visiting International Researcher

• Aidan Baron – paramedic

 

Projects

• Department of Health Policy Research Programme. Improving Cardiac Arrest Recognition and Effectiveness (ICARE)
• NIHR HTA Randomised, placebo controlled trial of adrenaline for out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) 
• NIHR HS&DR Why do outcomes of hospitalised patients with first out of hospital cardiac arrest from Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) vary in England and Wales?
• Kingston University First Grants Scheme. Survey of facilities and staffing for acute cardiac care in NHS hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: pilot study
• Kingston University First Grants Scheme. Exploring how paramedics manage professional activity in their day-to-day work within the English NHS ambulance service. A qualitative study.
• British Red Cross: Testing a lay responder pathway to head injuries.
  
• British Heart Foundation: Use and impact of the pre-hospital 12-lead electrocardiogram in the primary PCI era. Mixed method study (PHECG-2)
• Gas Safety Trust: Screening for Carbon Monoxide Exposure in Emergency Departments