Dynamical Analysis Laboratory

Dynamical Analysis Laboratory (DAL) is a hospital-based laboratory led by Dr. Andrew J. E. Seely (MD, PhD, FRCSC). DAL focuses on exploring the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic value of monitoring the dynamics of physiologic variables. Research in the DAL involves the study and exploration of the intrinsic clinical significance of altered variability of physiologic parameters as it relates to infection, exercise, and organ dysfunction. Altered variability in infection and trauma is strongly tied to changes in sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation. Under a paradigm of evolution that the host response to severe infection is a complex system characterized by non-linear relation feedback loops and cascade avalanche behavior with emergent properties of health or illness, research in the DAL explores the use of analysis of variability to identify changes in the emergent properties of the whole system.

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Last Modified: June 22, 2008