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Mervyn Singer is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in epidemiology, critical care and intensive care medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and surgery.

Their main topics of study include sepsis diagnosis and treatment, COVID-19 clinical research studies, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, respiratory support and mechanisms, long-term effects of COVID-19, hemodynamic monitoring and therapy, and cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Frequent publication venues for Mervyn Singer include:

  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Critical Care
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Journal of Critical Care

Common co-authors in their research are Nishkantha Arulkumaran, David Brealey, Timothy Arthur Chandos Snow, Pietro Arina, and Michael Bauer, with collaboration counts ranging from 13 to 42 publications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection Among Patients in Intensive Care Units in 2017 (2020), published in JAMA
  • Pathophysiology of sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy (2021), published in Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance (2020), published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Genomic characteristics and clinical effect of the emergent SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage in London, UK: a whole-genome sequencing and hospital-based cohort study (2021), published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Biomarkers for sepsis: more than just fever and leukocytosis-a narrative review (2022), published in Critical Care

Best Publications

  • The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    Mervyn Singer;Clifford S. Deutschman;Christopher Warren Seymour;Manu Shankar-Hari

  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

    Andrew Rhodes;Laura E. Evans;Waleed Alhazzani;Mitchell M. Levy

  • Assessment of Clinical Criteria for Sepsis: For the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    Christopher W. Seymour;Vincent X. Liu;Theodore J. Iwashyna;Frank M. Brunkhorst

  • Hydrocortisone Therapy for Patients with Septic Shock

    Charles L. Sprung;Djillali Annane;Didier Keh;Rui Moreno

  • Developing a New Definition and Assessing New Clinical Criteria for Septic Shock: For the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    Manu Shankar-Hari;Manu Shankar-Hari;Gary S. Phillips;Mitchell L. Levy;Christopher W. Seymour

  • Trial of Early, Goal-Directed Resuscitation for Septic Shock

    Paul R. Mouncey;Tiffany M. Osborn;G. Sarah Power;David A. Harrison

  • Association between mitochondrial dysfunction and severity and outcome of septic shock

    David Brealey;Michael Brand;Iain Hargreaves;Simon Heales

  • Assessment of the clinical effectiveness of pulmonary artery catheters in management of patients in intensive care (PAC-Man): a randomised controlled trial

    Sheila Harvey;David A Harrison;Mervyn Singer;Joanne Ashcroft

  • Intraoperative intravascular volume optimisation and length of hospital stay after repair of proximal femoral fracture: randomised controlled trial.

    Susan Sinclair;Sally James;Mervyn Singer

  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection Among Patients in Intensive Care Units in 2017.

    Jean Louis Vincent;Yasser Sakr;Mervyn Singer;Ignacio Martin-Loeches

  • Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of corticosteroid insufficiency in critically ill adult patients: consensus statements from an international task force by the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

    Paul E. Marik;Stephen M. Pastores;Djillali Annane;Gianfranco Meduri

  • Mechanisms of sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunction

    Alain Rudiger;Mervyn Singer

  • Effect of heart rate control with esmolol on hemodynamic and clinical outcomes in patients with septic shock: a randomized clinical trial.

    Andrea Morelli;Christian Ertmer;Martin Westphal;Sebastian Rehberg

  • Preliminary UK experience of dexmedetomidine, a novel agent for postoperative sedation in the intensive care unit.

    R. M. Venn;C. J. Bradshaw;R. Spencer;D. Brealey

  • Effect of Conservative vs Conventional Oxygen Therapy on Mortality Among Patients in an Intensive Care Unit: The Oxygen-ICU Randomized Clinical Trial

    Massimo Girardis;Stefano Busani;Elisa Damiani;Abele Donati

  • Multiorgan failure is an adaptive, endocrine-mediated, metabolic response to overwhelming systemic inflammation

    Mervyn Singer;Vincenzo De Santis;Vincenzo De Santis;Domenico Vitale;Domenico Vitale;William Jeffcoate

  • Mechanisms of sepsis-induced organ dysfunction

    Edward Abraham;Mervyn Singer

  • The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis-induced multi-organ failure

    Mervyn Singer

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction in a long-term rodent model of sepsis and organ failure

    David Brealey;Sekhar Karyampudi;Thomas S. Jacques;Marco Novelli

  • Biomarkers in sepsis.

    Mervyn Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Djillali Annane
Djillali Annane University of Paris-Saclay
Charles L. Sprung
Charles L. Sprung Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Luciano Gattinoni
Luciano Gattinoni University of Göttingen
Derek C. Angus
Derek C. Angus University of Pittsburgh
Michael R. Pinsky
Michael R. Pinsky University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Rhodes
Andrew Rhodes St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Didier Payen
Didier Payen Université Paris Cité
Jo Spencer
Jo Spencer King's College London

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