Vietnam ICU Translational Applications Laboratory (VITAL) is a unique multidisciplinary project, funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of its Innovations for Impact strategy, providing ICU/critical care innovation in resource-limited settings. The project is a collaboration between The Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, in Ho Chi Minh City, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, King’s College London, ETH Zurich and the University of Melbourne. The team will be based in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) ICU in Ho Chi Minh city and provide proof-of-principle that bioengineering and artificial intelligence can be used to define physiology and inform clinical decision making in the treatment of the commonest life-threatening infectious diseases (dengue shock, septic shock, tetanus, TB meningitis).

Read More