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Karen  Bosma
Profession:
Critical Care Physician
Institution:
London Health Sciences Centre, Western University
City:
London
Research Focus:
Patient-ventilator interactions, weaning, sleep, delirium, ARDS

Karen J. Bosma

Dr. Bosma is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute, and Attending Consultant, Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital in London, Canada.  Her primary research interest is patient-ventilator interaction and its impact on sleep, delirium and weaning from mechanical ventilation during proportional-assist ventilation, with a secondary research interest in acute lung injury/ARDS.  She is currently co-PI of the PROMIZING Study (Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation - (NCT# NCT02447692)). 

Recent work

Recent publications include: The PROMIZING trial enrollment algorithm for early identification of patients ready for unassisted breathing. Crit Care. 2022 Jun 23;26(1):188. (doi: 10.1186/s13054-022-04063-4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35739553/); Endothelial Injury and Glycocalyx Degradation in Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients:  Implications for Microvascular Platelet Aggregation (DOI: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000194); Acute Hemorrhagic Encephalitis Related to COVID-19 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000900); A systematic review of risk factors for sleep disruption in critically ill adults (PMID: 32433122) and Life-threatening bronchiolitis related to electronic cigarette use in a Canadian youth (PMID: 31753841), which received international recognition.