We will close this website June 30, 2012!

The multimodalmonitoring.org project started in 2010 as a cooperation between the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden and the Neuro Critical Care Society in the US. The idea was to support individual clinics all over the world in creating a multimodal monitoring environment in their intensive care units.

The project rested on three ideas:

1. To provide free download of ICUpilot, the most competent software available for recording and interpreting bedside data
2. To provide a website where the interpretation of individual patient data data can be discussed between members of the site.
3. To review and discuss papers on microdialysis and tissue oxygen.

The possibility to download the ICUpilot software free of charge has provided many scientists and clinicians with a poweful tool for analyzing multimodal data both off-line and on-line. However, we have run into considerable obstacles when attempting to share clinical data due to various legal restrictions and reluctance from clinicians to share original data between each other. It seemed like a great idea but the fact is that it turned out to be unrealistic.

Recently the ICUpilot software has been sold by the original developer to the company M Dialysis AB in Stockholm, Sweden. They are now the new owner and distributor of instruments and software for clinical microdialysis. We have agreed that M Dialysis will take over the distribution of ICUpilot and as a consequence we will close the multimodalmonitoring.org website and we refer you to the M-dialysis website (www.mdialysis.com) and the ICUpilot website (www.icupilot.com). If your intention is to use ICUpilot for bedside multimodal monitoring it is my experience that every clinic has its own special needs and I advice you to contact Magnus Hedberg at M-dialysis (magnus.hedberg@mdialysis.se).

Urban Ungerstedt, Professor emeritus, Karolinska institute, Stockholm.