Trials in set up
WCTU's team is leading on a wide range of trials with the aim of informing modern clinical and health care practice. Spanning a range of major health issues, learn more about our work.
Trials in set up
| Trial name | About the Trial | Trial type | Chief Investigator |
| Awake ProneLink opens in a new window | Awake Prone positioning in patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure not due to COVID-19 | Emergency and Critical Care group | Dr Keith Couper |
| BigTOE | Big Toe OstEoarthritis Trial: Inserts (BigTOE Inserts) | Surgery, pain and rehabilitation |
Associate Professor Michael Backhouse |
| The Confederation of Respiratory Critical Care Trials (CoReCCT) | Emergency and Critical Care | ||
| Getting Recovery Right After Neck Dissection for Head and Neck Cancer (GRRAND) | Surgery, pain and rehabilitation |
Professors Toby Smith and Stuart Winters |
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| Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) compared to conventional ventilation for patients at risk of difficult or prolonged weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation: The UK NAVA Trial | Emergency and Critical Care |
Dr Daniel Hadfield |
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| PROTECT Airways | The clinical and cost effectiveness of advanced airways protection device versus conventional endotracheal tubes in Intensive care unit patients requiring mechanical ventilation: a multicentre, pragmatic randomised clinical trial (PROTECT Airways) | Emergency and Critical Care |
Dr Gareth Kitchen |
| RELEASE | Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV) vs conventional ventilation for patients with moderate to severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (RELEASE). | Emergency and Critical Care |
Prof Luigi CamporotaProf Danny McAuley |
| ReSTORe | To run a UK-wide randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test if the ‘Remote STrOke Rehabilitation’ (ReSTORe) intervention, a supervised, live online, home-based, group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme, can improve Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) more than best-practice usual care, for people with long-term mild to moderate physical and/or mental health disability after stroke. | Surgery, pain and rehabilitation |
Prof Gordon McGregor |