Intensive Care

The Department of Intensive Care is part of the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It is a clinical department within the school, alongside its teaching and research in critical care medicine.

Its main research strengths lie in critical care therapeutics, sepsis management, toxicology and advanced organ support. Publication data also show work on antibiotic dosing strategies, hemoadsorption in shock and pulmonary ultrasound, together with tuberculosis diagnostics and drug resistance genomics.

Further themes include multicentre trials and implementation studies of targeted sequencing and molecular assays, and TB care pathways, with attention to translating laboratory methods into frontline practice. The research is focused on South Africa and the wider Southern African region, where infectious and noncommunicable disease burdens are high.