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Sat Feb 7 21:47:13 GMT 2009

Hi Ian

Hope you're well? I have been away for a few weeks in the US and the UK
recently, and arrived back late last week. Now I am back I am keen to get a
move on with the various research areas that I have had planned for some
time. I wonder if you have thought any more about the research topics we
talked about when we were applying for the ARC grant last year. I would be
eager to come to talk to your colleagues about our research techniques and
how they could integrate into your ICU?

Essentially we would want to look at exploring the possibility of
downloading waveform data direct from your monitors, and investigating the
analysis of these waveforms to explore the relationships between them and
routinely measured physiological variables, and also to patient course and
progress. We could, for instance, look at things as diverse as diagnosis and
prognostication in sepsis, responses to fluid boluses and medications, and
changes associated with respiratory failure, to list some topics off the top
of my head. I am sure you know plenty about frequency domain analysis etc
but I would be happy to send you some material.

It might be useful to get our engineering experts to talk to your monitoring
tech guys to see if what we plan is really do-able. We have had a few more
papers published in the last few months (latest attached) and our Biomedical
Systems Lab centre is becoming very organised, and we are now very
enthusiastic about getting a data stream from somewhere like yourselves as
quickly as possible to take advantage of the critical mass of PhD students
etc at the BSL.

Please email me on either this address or the ambulance one, or call me on
0439995251 when you get a chance.

Look forward to talking to you soon.

Best wishes

Paul

Associate Professor Paul M Middleton
RGN MBBS FRCS(Eng) DipIMCRCS(Ed) FCEM FACEM

Senior Medical Adviser
Ambulance Service of NSW
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