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| Critical Care Research Unit |
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| Background |
The Critical Care Research Unit was established in late 1997 and is located on the 2 nd floor of the Hospital-T Building, Faculty of Tropical Medicine to support research activities in the Department of Tropical Medicine. The research activities of the unit is focused on malaria disease mainly in the hospital field and field malaria station with the aims; to examine the patho-physiogenesis in severe malaria, to investigate the new methods for malaria treatment, to develop the new procedure for the detection of red cell sequestration in malaria, to determine the safety and toxicology for malaria treatment, the current laboratory effort is focused on the use of real-time PCR to detection and classification of malaria, etc. The unit has collaboration with Phop-Phra Hospital, Tak and Suan-Phung Hospital, Ratchaburee to study in the field works.
We also collaborated with Department of Radiology, Ramathibodi-Hospital, Faculty of Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital; Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Science; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Thammasat University, Thailand; Faculty of Pharmacy, Rangsit University, Thailand; Bureau of Vector Borne Disease; Department of Medical Science, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand; Department of Immunology and Medicine, USAMC-AFRIMS, Thailand; Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China; Laboratorire Hospitalo-Universitaire de Parasitologie et Mycologie Medicale, Cayenne, French Guiana; The International Medical Centre of Japan, Japan; Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, U.S.A.; Roll Back Malaria Department, WHO, Switzerland and McLaughlin Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. |
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| Current activities |
| The mission of unit has served the mission of the Department of Tropical Medicine to pursue the mission in three major activities, teaching, research and medical service. The details of each activity are showed as follows: |
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Teaching activity |
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Unit’s staff has involved in the teaching activity of the Department of Tropical Medicine both in-house lectures and field works, particularly in 5 courses for Graduate and Diploma students of Faculty of Tropical Medicine as listed below: |
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Postgraduate(International) Program |
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Master of Science in Tropical Medicine, M.Sc. (Trop. Med.) |
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Doctor of Philosophy in Tropical Medicine, Ph.D. (Trop. Med.) |
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Master in Clinical Tropical Medicine (M.C.T.M.) |
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Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Tropical Medicine, Ph.D. (Clin. Trop. Med.) |
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Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (D.T.M.& H.) |
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Undergraduate Program |
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M.D. : Collaborative Project to Produce Rural Doctors (CPPRD) |
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The extra courses as listed below: |
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Other courses of Faculty of Tropical Medicine, e.g., Medical students, Nurse assistant students. |
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Training, Research follow, Study visit of interns, students, researchers and other staffs from Thailand and foreign countries. |
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Research activity |
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Antimalarial drug trials, both efficacy and safety aspects, are mainly conducted. We are also studying on the patho-physiogenesis in severe malaria, the alternative method to diagnosis of malaria, malaria cultivation and drug sensitivity. |
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The current studied topics are |
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New combination therapies for malaria |
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Malaria field studies on efficacy and tolerability of antimalarial drug |
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Hematology profiles of malaria |
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Pathogenesis of severe malaria in Thailand |
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Molecular diagnosis of malaria |
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Cultivation and drug sensitivity of malaria |
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Medical Care Services |
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Medical care service is one of the main functions of the unit. Our medical staffs have involved in activities of Bangkok Hospital for Tropical Diseases (both in-house works and field works). |
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Last updated: Juny 8, 2008 |
