EU Projects

Focused on enhancing data use in ICUs across Europe to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.

In 2024, the EPIC project officially launched, bringing together experts from intensive care and palliative care across Europe. The year focused on developing key tools, including a trigger list to identify ICU patients needing early palliative care, educational modules, webinars, and telemedicine support. Surveys and interviews were conducted to understand barriers and facilitators for implementation, while a health-economic study began to assess cost-effectiveness. Ethical guidelines for tele-palliative consultations were also drafted. Overall, 2024 laid the groundwork for the full intervention rollout planned for 2025.

In 2024, the SAFEST project published its major consensus study, “Moving towards a Core Measures Set for Patient Safety in Perioperative Care: An e‑Delphi Consensus Study”, establishing agreed-upon core patient safety measures for the perioperative pathway. Additionally, the project protocol was formally published in PLOS ONE in June 2024, detailing its mixed-methods implementation design and rollout across 10 hospitals in five European countries to standardise perioperative safety practices. These milestones mark a clear progression from foundational development to readiness for implementation in the near future.

Focuses on developing intelligent lung support for mechanically ventilated ICU patients. In 2024, ESAIC is contributing to the analysis and dissemination of survey findings from the previous year, helping shape the clinical direction of the project.