Research Group Lead: Professor Daniel Martin

Our group is dedicated to improving clinical outcomes in patients undergoing surgery (perioperative medicine) and critically ill patients admitted to an intensive care unit (intensive care medicine). 

Surgery can result in unwanted complications that have a significant impact on patients’ lives. Many of these complications are preventable and the aim of perioperative medicine is to optimise care before, during and after surgery in order to give patients the best chance of successful recovery. Our research focuses on different elements of the surgical patient pathway with a particular focus on the preoperative period, where prehabilitation is being evaluated. We are also interested in cellular processes that may be responsible for harm after surgery.

Severe illness that results from disease, trauma and surgery can result in organ failure and the need for organ support on an intensive care unit. Mortality and long-term morbidity is high in these patients and our research aims to tackle this. Our group has a particular interest in how oxygen levels effect clinical outcomes and how cells can adapt to the stress caused by critical illness.