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Biography
Professor Shehabi, a senior clinician academic and experienced clinical trialist with extensive track record in leading multinational large scale RCTs, competitive NHMRC and industry collaborative grant funding, knowledge dissemination through publications in high impact journals and presentations at major critical care meetings. He is a respected opinion leader in critical care, nationally and internationally.
Since 2015, he has published and been involved in more than 45 (13 first author) peer reviewed original research, invited editorials and book chapters with 4300 citations with h-index 26 and i10-index 41 (total 48). Dr Shehabi has been an NHMRC GRP member in 2014/15/16/17/19 and 2020. He is a peer reviewer for many high impact journals including NEJM, JAMA, Am J Resp Crit Care Medicine, Crit Care Med and Inten Care Medicine.
Professor Shehabi led the Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation (SPICE) research programme from concept, design, execution, and publications. In collaboration with the Australian and Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZIC CTG), multiple SPICE studies have been conducted and published in leading critical care journals. SPICE I, the foundation of the SPICE program, conducted in 4 countries in 43 ICUs. It uncovered for the first time an independent association between deep sedation in the first 48 hrs of mechanical ventilation and 6 months mortality. SPICE II, a pilot trial conducted in 8 ICUs, tested a new concept of early goal directed sedation using dexmedetomidine as a candidate intervention. SPICE III, a pivotal trial of 4000 patients recruited in 74 ICUs tested the hypothesis that early sedation with dexmedetomidine may reverse early deep sedation and reduce mortality. SPICE IV is the next succession of the SPICE program in older population of ICU patients.
In collaboration with Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, Dr Shehabi assembled a team of investigators in Australia to conduct the BALANCE trial, Bacteraemia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed for Clinical Effectiveness. In collaboration with Infectious disease consultants at MU, a successful NHMRC grant was secured for the completion of the trial.
He has been the chief investigator of the randomised multicentre RCT, the ProGUARD trial, funded by the Intensive Care Foundation, in 12 ICUs in Australia, evaluating the utility of Procalcitonin in patients with undifferentiated infections in ICU. The results of which were published in the AJRCCM in 2012. Since then, he collaborated widely with international colleagues and participated in multiple publications in the Lancet Inf Dis and the Cochrane reviews on the utility of Procalcitonin in managing respiratory infections.
Through his research, Professor Shehabi is considered a national and an international authority on sedation and delirium management and on the use of dexmedetomidine in critical care and perioperative medicine. He actively participated in the Society Critical Care Medicine taskforce which composed and published the widely disseminated PADIS guidelines, published in Crit Care Med in 2018. He is part of an international delirium interest group evaluating the prevention and impact delirium in hospital and ICU patients. He has led the SaferCare Victoria sedation and delirium management plan, known as the Vic-PAD ICU. The first stage was conducted in 13 ICUs in Victoria prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Shehabi established a successful collaboration with medical pharma and device companies securing > A$ 3 million in direct and in-kind funding over the last 5 years.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Medicine , PhD, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Award Date: 2 May 2016
Business Admin, Executive Masters Business Administration, University of Technology Sydney
Award Date: 30 Jun 2003
External positions
Conj Professor Clinical School of Medicine , University of New South Wales (UNSW)
1 Mar 2013 → …
Research area keywords
- critical illness
- Delirium
- Acute kidney injury
- Biomarkers
- antibiotic prescribing
Network
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Albumin infusion and AKI following cardiac surgery – Randomised Trial
15/03/22 → 31/01/24
Project: Research
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SPICE IV: Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation in Older ventilated Critically Ill patients; Early Sedation with Dexmedetomidine in Older Ventilated Critically Ill Patients. A Randomised Double Blind Placebo Controlled Trial - SPICE IV
Shehabi, Y., Bellomo, R., Howe, B., Hodgson, C., Presneill, J., Bailey, M., Reade, M. C., Webb, S., Campbell, L. & Seppelt, I. M.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/20 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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BALANCE: Bacteremia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed for Clinical Effectiveness (BALANCE): A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Rogers, B., Shehabi, Y., Stuart, R., Harris, P., Daneman, N., Fowler, R. A. & Bulfin, L.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Pilot safety and feasibility trial of cell therapies for COVID-19
Malhotra, A., Shehabi, Y., Rogers, B., Lim, R., Wallace, E. & Jenkin, G.
1/10/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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The impact of dexmedetomidine on postoperative delirium: should we throw out a DECADE of research?
Payne, T., Coburn, M., Dieleman, S., Heller, G., Jardine, M., Shehabi, Y. & Sanders, R. D., Jun 2023, In: British Journal of Anaesthesia. 130, 6, p. e479-e481 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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Correction to: The future of intensive care: delirium should no longer be an issue (Critical Care, (2022), 26, 1, (200), 10.1186/s13054-022-04077-y)
Kotfis, K., van Diem‑Zaal, I., Williams Roberson, S., Sietnicki, M., van den Boogaard, M., Shehabi, Y. & Ely, E. W., 21 Sep 2022, In: Critical Care. 26, 1, 1 p., 285.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
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Correlation of patient-reported outcome measures to performance-based function in critical care survivors: PREDICTABLE
Paton, M., Lane, R., Paul, E., Linke, N., Shehabi, Y. & Hodgson, C. L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Australian Critical Care. 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Current practice, education and recommendations for training of central line insertion for trainees and fellows in adult intensive care units across Australia and New Zealand
Parikh, T., Al-Bassam, W., Shehabi, Y., Pakavakis, A. & Subramaniam, A., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Internal Medicine Journal. p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Dexmedetomidine vs other sedatives in critically ill mechanically ventilated adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials
Lewis, K., Alshamsi, F., Carayannopoulos, K. L., Granholm, A., Piticaru, J., Al Duhailib, Z., Chaudhuri, D., Spatafora, L., Yuan, Y., Centofanti, J., Spence, J., Rochwerg, B., Perri, D., Needham, D. M., Holbrook, A., Devlin, J. W., Nishida, O., Honarmand, K., Ergan, B., Khorochkov, E., & 8 others , Jul 2022, In: Intensive Care Medicine. 48, 7, p. 811-840 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
15 Citations (Scopus)