Carl Otto Schell

Researcher at Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet and Centre for Clinical Research Sörmland, Eskilstuna, Uppsala University

Senior Consultant Physican, Specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Department of 
Medicine, Nyköping Hospital, Sörmland County, Sweden

My research interests are in the fields of global health, health systems,  critical care and internal medicine. My focus is to explore the potential of basic, feasible, low-cost actions in health care that are often overlooked in policy, research and medical practice. The output is intended to assist decision making in policy and clinical practice. The aim is to generate knowledge that can increase priority of high value care, fair choices in health systems and resilience for health crises.  

I co-initiated the concept of Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC). EECC refers to the effective lifesaving care actions that are relevant across diagnoses , and of such low cost and simplicity that they can be implemented in any hospital ward, anywhere in the world. Yet,   EECC is often neglected in hospitals, leading to preventable deaths. Much of my research is focused on exploring this gap, its causes and consequences and how to effectively implement and sustain EECC provision to increase survival of acutely ill patients across medical specialities and settings.