Professional background

Eamon Raith is a consultant in neurocritical care medicine at the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery.

He graduated from the University of Adelaide, awarded prizes in surgery and geriatric medicine, in 2011. He trained in intensive care medicine at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and The Royal Adelaide Hospital. He has also worked in paediatric and neonatal retrieval medicine at MedSTAR, the South Australian Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Retrieval service. He completed a fellowship in neurocritical care medicine at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2019/2020.

Dr Raith has a specialist interest in the critical care management of intracerebral haemorrhage and traumatic brain injury.

Research interests

Dr Raith is a clinical senior lecturer in critical care medicine based at the University of Adelaide Medical School. He is an honorary clinical senior researcher in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at The University of Oxford, and an honorary clinical lecturer in the Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, and the Department of Experimental and Translational Medicine, at University College London.

He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Adelaide were under the mentorship of Professor Peter Devitt.

Dr Raith’s research is in the area of experimental & translational critical care medicine. He has a focus on surgical & neurocritical care medicine, and immune function and therapy in critical illness. This international program spans pre-clinical research, neurogenomics, mechanistic clinical research, clinical trials and international population studies in these areas. Recent work has focused on the management of COVID-19 and the role of immunomodulatory therapies and the development of a nascent critical care neurogenomics program in association with the Department of Neurogenetics at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

He also leads the global critical care medicine programme within the Oxford University Global Surgery Group. This program is designed to address issues of global inequity in the provision of resuscitation, emergency care for life-threatening conditions and intensive care, across the emergency and critical care medicine delivery system, including prehospital and in-hospital care.

This programme specifically addresses the provision of critical care for non-communicable diseases, including surgical, obstetric, neuroscience and trauma critical care, and sequelae of these illnesses. Current projects are focussed on the critical care of children and young adults with head injuries.

Publications

1. Cohen J, Delaney A, Anstey J, Anstey M, Barge D, Bellomo R, Bhardwa V, Brinkerhoff G, Board J, Campain A, Cooper DJ, Di Tanna GL, Finnis ME, Fitzgerald E, Flower O, Healey P, Hunt A, Lawrence C, Merthens J, Newby L, Person D, Raith EP, Robertson Y, Schweikert S, Starr T, Tallott M, van der Pol A, Young P, Udy A. Dysnatraemia and 6-month functional outcomes in critically ill patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. A prospective cohort study. In Press

2. A. Udy, D.J. Cooper, J. Broad, R. Bellomo, A. Delaney, E. Fitzgerald, J. Anstey, D. Barge, A. van der Pol, L. Newby, E. P. Raith, M. Finnis, M. Anstey, B. Roberts, J. Cohen, T. Starr, M. Tallott, D. Pearson, A. Hunt, P Young, P. Healey, G. Brinkerhoff, J. Merthens. Six-month mortality and functional outcomes in aneurysmal sub-arachnoid haemorrhage patients admitted to intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand: A prospective cohort study. In Press

3. Raith EP, Luoma AMV, Earl M, Dalal M, Fairley S, Fox F, Hunt K, Willette C, Reddy U. Repurposing a Neurocritical Care Unit for the Management of Severely Ill Patients with COVID-19: A Retrospective Evaluation. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2020 Aug 18. doi: 10.1097/ANA.0000000000000727.

4. Young P, Mackle D, Bellomo R, Bailey M, Beasley R, Deane A, Eastwood G, Finfer S, Freebairn R, King V, Linke N, Litton E, McArthur C, McGuinness S, Panwar R; ICU-ROX Investigators the Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Conservative oxygen therapy for mechanically ventilated adults with suspected hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Aug 18;1-12. doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06196-y.

5. Ojha M, Finnis ME, Heckelmann M, Raith EP, Moodie S, Chapman MJ, Reddi B, Maiden MJ. Outcomes following grade V subarachnoid haemorrhage: A single-centre retrospective study. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 2020 Jul 12:310057X20927033. doi: 10.1177/0310057X20927033. Online ahead of print.

6. Raith EP, Reddy U. Neuromonitoring. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. 2020;21(6): 275-281. doi: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2020.03.011

7. Raith EP, Fiorini F, Reddy U. Critical care management of adult traumatic brain injury. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine. 2020;21(6):285-292. doi: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2020.03.012

8. Young P, Mackle D, Bellomo R, Bailey M, Beasley R, Deane A, Eastwood G, Finfer S, Freebairn R, King V, Linke N, Litton E, McArthur C, McGuinness S, Panwar R; ICU-ROX Investigators the Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Conservative oxygen therapy for mechanically ventilated adults with sepsis: a post hoc analysis of data from the intensive care unit randomized trial comparing two approaches to oxygen therapy (ICU-ROX). Intensive Care Med. 2020 Jan;46(1):17-26. doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05857-x.

9. The ICU-ROX Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Conservative Oxygen Therapy during Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU. N Engl J Med. 2019 Oct 14. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1903297.

10. Aung M, Raith E, Williams E, Burrell. Severe meningococcal serogroup W sepsis presenting as myocarditis: A case report and review of literature. Journal of the Intensive Care Society. 2019 May;20(2):182-186. doi: 10.1177/1751143718794127.

11. Raith EP, Ihle JF, Jamieson J, Kalff A, Bosco J. Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome presenting as septic shock: A case report. Heart Lung. 2018;47(4):425-428. doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2018.04.008.

12. Raith EP, Roodenburg O. Novel supports for Junior Medical Officers during out-of-hours work. Intern Med J. 2017;47(2):236-237. doi:10.1111/imj.13344.

13. Raith EP, Udy AA, Bailey M, et al. Prognostic accuracy of the SOFA score, SIRS criteria, and qSOFA score for in-hospital mortality among adults with suspected infection admitted to the intensive care unit. JAMA. 2017;317(3):290-300. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20328.

14. Frauenfelder C, Raith EP, Griggs WM. Damage Control Resuscitation of the exsanguinating trauma patient: Pathophysiology and basic principles. Journal of Military and Veterans Health. 2011;19(2):19-24. doi:10.13140/2.1.1148.2885.

15. Raith EP. Heart: Cardiac Myxoma. Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology. 2010;14(2):164-168. doi:10.4267/2042/44694.