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
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 and an honorary consultant at Oxford University Hospitals Trust.
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 and leads the guidelines and policy working group of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Association as well as being 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 50 articles in international journals.
Recent publications
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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, (2021)
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The Role of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Toxigenic Clostridium tetani Infection: A Case-Control Study.
Journal article
Van Hao N. et al, (2021), The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
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Risk factors associated with mechanical ventilation, autonomic nervous dysfunction and physical outcome in Vietnamese adults with tetanus.
Journal article
Davies-Foote R. et al, (2021), Tropical medicine and health, 49
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Automatic detection of B-lines in lung ultrasound videos from severe dengue patients
Conference paper
Kerdegari H. et al, (2021), Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2021-April, 989 - 993
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Vital sign monitoring using wearable devices in a Vietnamese intensive care unit
Journal article
Van HMT. et al, (2021), BMJ Innovations, 7, S7 - S11