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In the critical care setting, oxygen levels need to be brought up fast to avoid damage to the brain and other organs, but breathing is often compromised in very sick patients. Inspired by one infant with a pulmonary hemorrhage who couldn't be saved, John Kheir, MD, chief fellow in Critical Care Medicine at Children's, with a collaborator at Columbia University, is developing a drug that packages oxygen so it can be directly injected into the bloodstream. Preliminary studies have shown prototypes to be very effective in oxygenating blood. Kheir won the 2007 New Investigator Research Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics' Society of Critical Care for the project.
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