Overview
Background
Associate Professor Robert Boots is a member of the clinical team at the Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre.
Rob currently is a senior Thoracic and Sleep Physician in the Department of Thoracic Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and continues to practice intensive care medicine in Bundaberg. His current research interests relate to biologic circadian rhythm dysfunction particularly as it relates to recovery from critical illness in addition to applications of virtual reality distraction therapy to improve patient outcomes from complex illness. Previously Rob served as the Deputy Director of the Department of Intensive Care Medicineat RBWH for 20 years and has qualifications in both respiratory medicine and intensive care. He has a strong background in clinical epidemiology and research previslu researching the management of burns and prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia. He has served as Deputy Director of Clinical Training and Chairman of the Medical Emergency Response Training Program at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Rob received training in clinical education from the Harvard Macy Program for Physician Educators in Boston USA and the Bulstrode and Hunt program of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edin). He was a key stakeholder in the development of the business case and the despite of the Queensland Health Clinical Skills Development Centre whoch opened in 2004. After serving for 6 years as the Chairman of the Queensland Regional Committee of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care he was electived to the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine in 2010, serving as the Censor, Education Officer and Research Officer during the transition of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine to the existing CICM. He previously served as the Deputy Chair of the Patholgy Primary Exmaination Committee of the RACS and is currently a senior member of the National Examiation Panel of the RACP. Rob is involved with many projects as a main investigator and supervises postgraduate students attached to the research unit.
Availability
- Associate Professor Robert Boots is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Medicine Surgery, The University of Queensland
- Masters (Coursework), University of Newcastle
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Research interests
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Pulmonary Infection in Ventilated Patients
Presently investigating the use of inhaled heparin in the prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia
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Asthma management in the ICU
Current survey of practice in Queensland
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Effectiveness of Telemedicine in ICU patient Care
Extensive effectiveness review of the existing program in Bundaberg Base Hospital
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Effect of ICU outpatient review in the outcomes of patients with sepsis
A randomised trial of a clinical outpatient review of patients who have been discharged from the intensive care unit for sepsis to assess their physical and emotional status. This is the present project in a suite of projects related to the rehabilitation of ICU patients.
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Effective Recommendations based on Multi-Source Data
Collaboration with the Engineering Department of University of Queensland with Prof Xue Li. Large-scale data collected from multiple sources such as the Web, sensor networks, academic publications,and social networks provide a new opportunity to exploit useful information for effective and efficient recommendations and decision making. In this project, we propose a new framework of recommender systems that is based on analysing relationships between different types of objects from multiple data sources. A graph model will be built to represent the extracted semantic relationships and novel linkage analysis based algorithms will be developed for ranking objects using the data of an established clinical information system in the ICU.
Works
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2019
Journal Article
Clinical management practices of life-threatening asthma: an audit of practices in intensive care
Secombe, Paul, Stewart, Penny, Singh, Sunil, Campbell, Lewis, Stephens, Dianne, Tran, Khoa, White, Hayden, Sheehy, Robert, Gibson, Justine, Cooke, Robyn, Townsend, Shane, Apte, Yogesh, Winearls, James, Ferry, Olivia R., Pradhan, Rahul, Ziegenfuss, Marc, Fong, Kwun M., Yang, Ian A., McGinnity, Paul, Meyer, Jason, Walsham, James, Boots, Rob, Clement, Pierre, Bandeshe, Hiran, Gracie, Christopher, Jarret, Paul, Collins, Stephenie, Coulston, Caitlin, Ng, Melisa ... Trout, Melita (2019). Clinical management practices of life-threatening asthma: an audit of practices in intensive care. Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine, 21 (1), 53-62.
2019
Conference Publication
Learning fine-grained patient similarity with dynamic Bayesian network embedded RNNs
Wang, Yanda, Chen, Weitong, Li, Bohan and Boots, Robert (2019). Learning fine-grained patient similarity with dynamic Bayesian network embedded RNNs. 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 22-25 April 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18576-3_35
2018
Journal Article
The effects of normovolemic anemia and blood transfusion on cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury
Bellapart, Judith, Cuthbertson, Kylie, Dunster, Kimble, Diab, Sara, Platts, David G., Raffel, Christopher, Gabrielian, Levon, Barnett, Adrian, Paratz, Jennifer, Boots, Rob and Fraser, John F. (2018). The effects of normovolemic anemia and blood transfusion on cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury. Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 6 (1) 46, 46. doi: 10.1186/s40635-018-0210-5
2018
Journal Article
Cerebral microcirculation and histological mapping after severe head injury: a contusion and acceleration experimental model
Bellapart, Judith, Cuthbertson, Kylie, Dunster, Kimble, Diab, Sara, Platts, David G., Raffel, Owen Christopher, Gabrielian, Levon, Barnett, Adrian, Paratz, Jenifer, Boots, Rob and Fraser, John F. (2018). Cerebral microcirculation and histological mapping after severe head injury: a contusion and acceleration experimental model. Frontiers in Neurology, 9 (MAY) 277, 277. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00277
2018
Conference Publication
Cascade and parallel convolutional recurrent neural networks on EEG-based intention recognition for brain computer interface
Zhang, Dalin, Yao, Lina, Zhang, Xiang, Wang, Sen, Chen, Weitong and Boots, Robert (2018). Cascade and parallel convolutional recurrent neural networks on EEG-based intention recognition for brain computer interface. 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018), New Orleans, LA, United States, 2-7 February 2018. Palo Alto, CA, United States: AAAI press. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v32i1.11496
2017
Journal Article
Augmented renal clearance in traumatic brain injury: a single-center observational study of atrial natriuretic peptide, cardiac output, and creatinine clearance
Udy, Andrew A., Jarrett, Paul, Lassig-Smith, Melissa, Stuart, Janine, Starr, Therese, Dunlop, Rachel, Deans, Renae, Roberts, Jason A., Senthuran, Siva, Boots, Robert, Bisht, Kavita, Bulmer, Andrew C. and Lipman, Jeffrey (2017). Augmented renal clearance in traumatic brain injury: a single-center observational study of atrial natriuretic peptide, cardiac output, and creatinine clearance. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34 (1), 137-144. doi: 10.1089/neu.2015.4328
2016
Journal Article
Resource use, governance and case load of rapid response teams in Australia and New Zealand in 2014
Jones, Daryl, Pilcher, David, Boots, Robert, Carter, Angus, Turner, Andrew, Hicks, Peter, Nicholls, Mark, Currey, Judy, Erickson, Simon, Stephens, Dianne, Pinder, Mary, Psirides, Alex, Barrett, Jonathan, Chalwin, Richard, Bellomo, Rinaldo, Hillman, Ken, Buist, Michael, Parker, Jane and Huckson, Sue (2016). Resource use, governance and case load of rapid response teams in Australia and New Zealand in 2014. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 18 (4), 275-282. doi: 10.1016/s1441-2772(23)00804-9
2016
Journal Article
Is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients?
Bandeshe, Hiran, Boots, Rob, Dulhunty, Joel, Dunlop, Rachael, Holley, Anthony, Jarrett, Paul, Gomersall, Charles D., Lipman, Jeff, Lo, Thomas, O'Donoghue, Steven, Paratz, Jenny, Paterson, David, Roberts, Jason A., Starr, Therese, Stephens, Di, Stuart, Janine, Thomas, Jane, Udy, Andrew and White, Hayden (2016). Is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients?. Journal of Critical Care, 35, 231-239. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.06.022
2016
Journal Article
Prevention of nosocomial infection in the neurosciences intensive care unit: remember the basics
Boots, Rob (2016). Prevention of nosocomial infection in the neurosciences intensive care unit: remember the basics. Neurocritical Care, 25 (2), 167-169. doi: 10.1007/s12028-016-0314-2
2016
Journal Article
Erratum: is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients? The IPHIVAP investigators of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group
Bandeshe, Hiran, Boots, Rob, Dulhunty, Joel, Dunlop, Rachael, Holley, Anthony, Jarrett, Paul, Gomersall, Charles D., Lipman, Jeff, Lo, Thomas, O'Donoghue, Steven, Paratz, Jenny, Paterson, David, Roberts, Jason A., Starr, Therese, Stephens, Di, Stuart, Janine, Thomas, Jane, Udy, Andrew and White, Hayden (2016). Erratum: is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients? The IPHIVAP investigators of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Journal of Critical Care, 35, 230-230. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.06.021
2016
Journal Article
Dealing with the critical care aftermath: where to from here?
Paratz, Jennifer D. and Boots, Robert J. (2016). Dealing with the critical care aftermath: where to from here?. Journal of Thoracic Disease, 8 (9), 2400-2402. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.08.86
2016
Journal Article
Inspiratory muscle training to enhance recovery from mechanical ventilation: a randomised trial
Bissett, Bernie M., Leditschke, I. Anne, Neeman, Teresa, Boots, Robert and Paratz, Jennifer (2016). Inspiratory muscle training to enhance recovery from mechanical ventilation: a randomised trial. Thorax, 71 (9), 812-819. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208279
2016
Journal Article
Cerebral microcirculation during mild head injury after a contusion and acceleration experimental model in sheep
Bellapart, Judith, Abi-Fares, Catherine, Cuthbertson, Kylie, Dunster, Kimble, Diab, Sara, Platts, David G., Raffel, Christopher, Gabrielian, Levon, Barnett, Adrian, Paratz, Jennifer, Boots, Rob and Fraser, John F. (2016). Cerebral microcirculation during mild head injury after a contusion and acceleration experimental model in sheep. Brain Injury, 30 (13-14), 1542-1551. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2016.1199894
2016
Journal Article
Is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients?. The IPHIVAP investigators of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group
Bandeshe, Hiran, Boots, Rob, Dulhunty, Joel, Dunlop, Rachael, Holley, Anthony, Jarrett, Paul, Gomersall, Charles D., Lipman, Jeff, Lo, Thomas, O'Donoghue, Steven, Paratz, Jenny, Paterson, David, Roberts, Jason A., Starr, Therese, Stephens, Di, Stuart, Janine, Thomas, Jane, Udy, Andrew and White, Hayden (2016). Is inhaled prophylactic heparin useful for prevention and management of pneumonia in ventilated ICU patients?. The IPHIVAP investigators of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Journal of Critical Care, 34, 95-102. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.04.005
2016
Journal Article
Variable use of amiodarone is associated with a greater risk of recurrence of atrial fibrillation in the critically ill
Mitric, Goran, Udy, Andrew, Bandeshe, Hiran, Clement, Pierre and Boots, Rob (2016). Variable use of amiodarone is associated with a greater risk of recurrence of atrial fibrillation in the critically ill. Critical Care, 20 (1) 90, 90. doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1252-2
2016
Journal Article
Pharmacokinetics of a novel dosing regimen of oral melatonin in critically ill patients
Bellapart, Judith, Roberts, Jason Alexander, Appadurai, Vinesh, Wallis, Steven C., Nunez-Nunez, Maria and Boots, Robert James (2016). Pharmacokinetics of a novel dosing regimen of oral melatonin in critically ill patients. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 54 (3), 467-472. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0323
2016
Journal Article
Cerebral microcirculation during experimental normovolaemic anemia
Bellapart, Judith, Cuthbertson, Kylie, Dunster, Kimble, Diab, Sara, Platts, David G., Raffel, O. Christopher, Gabrielian, Levon, Barnett, Adrian, Paratz, Jenifer, Boots, Rob and Fraser, John F. (2016). Cerebral microcirculation during experimental normovolaemic anemia. Frontiers in Neurology, 7 (FEB) 6, 6. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00006
2016
Journal Article
Reliability and utility of the Acute Care Index of Function in intensive care patients: an observational study
Bissett, Bernie, Green, Margot, Marzano, Vince, Byrne, Susannah, Leditschke, I. Anne, Neeman, Teresa, Boots, Robert and Paratz, Jennifer (2016). Reliability and utility of the Acute Care Index of Function in intensive care patients: an observational study. Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 45 (1), 10-14. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2015.09.008
2015
Journal Article
Early physical rehabilitation in intensive care patients with sepsis syndromes: a pilot randomised controlled trial
Kayambu, Geetha, Boots, Robert and Paratz, Jennifer (2015). Early physical rehabilitation in intensive care patients with sepsis syndromes: a pilot randomised controlled trial. Intensive Care Medicine, 41 (5), 865-874. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-3763-8
2015
Journal Article
Serum markers of sepsis in burn patients: it takes more to convince! Reply
Paratz, Jennifer D., Lipman, Jeffrey and Boots, Robert J. (2015). Serum markers of sepsis in burn patients: it takes more to convince! Reply. Critical Care Medicine, 43 (3), E101-E101. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000868
Funding
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Atrial Fibrillation in Critical Care
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Louise Cullen
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Assessment of Cerebral Microcirculation after Severe Head Injury in Experimental Ovine Models and the Effects of Normovolemic Anemia
Associate Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING TO ENHANCE RECOVERY FROM INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Associate Advisor
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Improving Outcomes in Critical Illness with Early Physical Rehabilitation
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Augmented Renal Clearance in the Critically Ill: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Implications for Beta-lactam Therapy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Jeffrey Lipman
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Dose optimisation of antibiotics during different forms of renal replacement therapy: focus on tissue and target site antibiotic concentrations
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Jason Roberts, Professor Jeffrey Lipman
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
PHYSIOTHERAPY INTERVENTION IN THE LONG-TERM INTENSIVE CARE STAY PATIENT: Use of head-up tilt and inspiratory muscle training
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Paul Hodges
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