The focal point of Asger Granfeldt’s research is acute and critical illness, and cardiac arrest in particular. Every day, as specialty registrar, he consults intensive care patients who need organ-supporting treatment such as respirator or dialysis. As the new professor, Asger Granfeldt can now better combine his clinical work with several research projects. The aim of the projects is to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind critical illness, which can help to identify potential new treatments.

Currently, Asger Granfeldt is amongst other things engaged in the so-called WHY-IHCA study, which examines the reasons why hospitalised patients develop cardiac arrest, and in the BIHCA trial, which examines the use of sodium bicarbonate in patients who experience cardiac arrest at the hospital. In addition, he is also involved in a translational research project in which he is investigating whether nitrogen oxide treatment can increase survival rates following cardiac arrest in pigs.

Contact

Professor Asger Granfeldt PhD Dmsc and specialty registrar
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Intensive Care
E-mail: granfeldt@clin.au.dk