Carl Otto Schell

Consultant Physician, Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology,
Department of Medicine, Nyköping Hospital, Sörmland County, Sweden

Research affiliations:
- Health Systems &

My research interests are in the fields of global health, health systems,
critical care and internal medicine. More specifically my focus is how to
best use the potential of basic, feasible, low-cost actions in health
care that are often overlooked in policy, research and medical practice.
Current projects:
- Essential Emergency and Critical Care: developing a research programme
around the concept which is defined as /the care critically ill patients
should receive in all hospitals in the world/.
- The Critical Illness and Sepsis Prevalence and Outcome Study (CRISPOS). A
point prevalence study in district and referral hospitals in Malawi, Sri
Lanka and Sweden. All inpatients, regardless of speciality or location in
the hospital, are examined on the same day. Vital signs are taken, and
ongoing treatments recorded. Primary aims are to estimate the prevalence of
critical illness, hospital mortality rates and the risk of death for
critically ill patients. Secondary aims are an assessment of the quality of
care and the predictive value of signs such as ability to walk, capillary
refill time, early warning scores and danger signs.

*2014-18: *Director of Resident training program, Department of Internal
Medicine, Nyköpings Hospital
*2009-13*: Head of Internship Program, Department of Internal Medicine,
Nyköping Hospital