Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: International Research Collaborations

We are requesting funds to support a 1 day multi-disciplinary meeting to plan for an international fluid resuscitation randomized controlled trial comparing 5% albumin to normal saline in early suspected septic shock that is powered for 90 day mortality (PRECISE Phase III Trial). This meeting will be held in Montreal, Quebec on Thursday, May 27, 2010 and involve intensive care (ICU) and emergency medicine (ED) investigators and research co-coordinators who are committed and planning to participate in the PRECISE Phase III trial. The objectives of this meeting aret to foster and solidify collaborations with Canadian and international ICU and ED investigators who have expressed a keen interest to participate in the PRECISE Phase III Trial, to discuss PRECISE Phase III trial design and operations issues and potential sub studies that may be conducted within the trial, and to set the stage for future collaborative resuscitation research among ED and ICU investigators in Canada and internationally.