TTM2 Trial: Hypothermia vs. Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

A project in Spiral’s study manifest, has recently been used in the long-awaited TTM2 trial. After successful resuscitation, patients who survive a cardiac arrest often remain severely ill and require intensive care. Controlling body temperature is a potential treatment that may prevent brain damage. The TTM2-trial aimed to study the impact on all-cause mortality of targeted hypothermia compared with targeted normothermia.

Read more about this practice changing trial over on our blog »

Meet Jess, one of our Project Leads

Ask her what a typical day or week looks like and Jess can’t help but laugh. 

 “Every day is different and every week throws up new challenges. I find myself to be very busy. The pressures of the pandemic are immense and with the trial being responsive, the build constantly needs to change...you hear of working in an agile environment but this really is as agile as it gets.” 

Read more about Jess over on our blog »

Spiral donates Chromebooks to help UK students during COVID-19 lockdowns

It’s been over a year since COVID-19 struck the world, and at Spiral we continue to think about the impact it has on our most vulnerable people – and not just in a clinical context. 

With many schools around the world in lockdown, students are expected to learn from home with online lessons. But what happens when a family doesn’t have a device? Or just one device to share between children? 

With this in mind, Spiral recently donated four new HP Chromebooks to Grange First Primary School in the UK. They’re a low decile school in one of the more economically challenged parts of London, and while the government had provided some Chromebooks to assist at-home learning, they were still short. That meant children were having to join lessons from their parent’s phone, or in families with more than one sibling, share devices. This often meant that one or more siblings simply didn’t get to do lessons that day. 

Read more about the chromebooks and watch the video »

Stew Duff, who makes what we do at Spiral technically possible

He’s not a researcher signing up patients for life-saving clinical trials – but he does determine eligibility.

He’s not a doctor, or a nurse, seeing patients and delivering recovery results – but he does do patient follow-ups and reporting. 

He’s not on the front-lines, but he is helping to save lives from the back end.

 Meet Stew, one of our Developers »