Faculty of Medicine

Dr David Liu

Honorary Senior Fellow/Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine
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Researcher biography

David is a critical-care clinician-scientist currently dual training with the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA).

He is currently employed as an ICU Registrar at the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (Herston, QLD), and will be an Anaesthetics Registrar at Caboolture Hospital in 2020. He is also an Honorary Fellow with The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering.

David has a multidisciplinary background in engineering, medicine, biostatistics, and critical care medicine. He first graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (Software) in 2004, and has had industry experience with Mincom Ltd, Deutsche Bank Australia, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, in addition to private software contracting. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Biomedical Engineering) in 2010 following a Fulbright Postgraduate Fellowship to the University of Utah's Anesthesiology Bioengineering Laboratory in 2009-2010. He completed one year of non-award studies in biostatistics at UQ in 2011, before completing his Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery in 2015.

He received general medical registration with AHPRA following completion of his medical internship at Ipswich Hospital. David then commenced a Queensland Health Junior Doctor Research Fellowship in 2017-2018 with the Burns, Trauma, and Critical Care Research Centre at the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital.

He is currently leading trials in nicotine replacement pharmacokinetics in the critically ill, and postoperative use of clonidine to improve sleep in HDU patients (in collaboration with Professor Michael Reade and A/Prof Jeremy Cohen). He is also collaborating with the UQ Cognitive Engineering Research Group on non-clinical research relating to human factors issues associated with equipment displays for critical care medicine (in collaboration with Professor Penelope Sanderson).

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (18)
Conference Papers (10)

Book Chapter

Liu, D. and Reade, M. C. (2018). Central α2-adrenoreceptor agonists in intensive care. Annual update in intensive care and emergency medicine. (pp. 561-577) edited by Jean-Louis Vincent. Basel, Switzerland: Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73670-9_42

Journal Articles

Sanderson, Penelope M., Loeb, Robert G., Liley, Helen, Liu, David, Paterson, Estrella, Hinckfuss, Kelly and Zestic, Jelena (2022). Signaling patient oxygen desaturation with enhanced pulse oximetry tones. Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology, 56 (2), 46-57. doi: 10.2345/1943-5967-56.2.46
Elrose, Francine, Hill, Andrew, Liu, David, Salisbury, Isaac, LeCong, Thien, Loeb, Robert G. and Sanderson, Penelope (2021). The use of head-worn displays for vital sign monitoring in critical and acute care: a systematic review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 9 (5) e27165, e27165. doi: 10.2196/27165
Cohen, Jeremy, Bellomo, Rinaldo, Billot, Laurent, Burrell, Louise M., Evans, David M., Finfer, Simon, Hammond, Naomi E., Li, Qiang, Liu, David, McArthur, Colin, McWhinney, Brett, Moore, John, Myburgh, John, Peake, Sandra, Pretorius, Carel, Rajbhandari, Dorrilyn, Rhodes, Andrew, Saxena, Manoj, Ungerer, Jacobus P. J., Young, Morag J. and Venkatesh, Balasubramanian (2020). Plasma cortisol, aldosterone, and ascorbic acid concentrations in patients with septic shock do not predict treatment effect of hydrocortisone on mortality. A nested cohort study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 202 (5), 700-707. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202002-0281OC
Dhaese, Sofie, Heffernan, Aaron, Liu, David, Abdul-Aziz, Mohd Hafiz, Stove, Veronique, Tam, Vincent H., Lipman, Jeffrey, Roberts, Jason A. and De Waele, Jan J. (2020). Prolonged versus intermittent infusion of β-Lactam antibiotics: a systematic review and meta-regression of bacterial killing in preclinical infection models. Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 59 (10), 1237-1250. doi: 10.1007/s40262-020-00919-6
Pascale, Michael T., Sanderson, Penelope, Liu, David, Mohamed, Ismail, Stigter, Nicola and Loeb, Robert G. (2018). Detection of visual stimuli on monocular peripheral head-worn displays. Applied Ergonomics, 73, 167-173. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.06.002
Staker, J. J., Liu, D., Church, R., Carlson, D. J., Panahkhahi, M., Lim, A. and LeCong, T. (2018). A triple-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial of the ilioinguinal-transversus abdominis plane (I-TAP) nerve block for elective caesarean section. Anaesthesia, 73 (5), 594-602. doi: 10.1111/anae.14222
McCurdie, Tara, Sanderson, Penelope, Aitken, Leanne and Liu, David (2017). Two sides to every story: The Dual Perspectives Method for examining interruptions in healthcare. Applied Ergonomics, 58, 102-109. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.05.012
Deschamps, Marie-Lys, Sanderson, Penelope, Hinckfuss, Kelly, Browning, Caitlin, Loeb, Robert G., Liley, Helen and Liu, David (2016). Improving the detectability of oxygen saturation level targets for preterm neonates: a laboratory test of tremolo and beacon sonifications. Applied Ergonomics, 56, 160-169. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.03.013
Paterson, E., Sanderson, P. M., Paterson, N. A. B., Liu, D. and Loeb, R. G. (2016). The effectiveness of pulse oximetry sonification enhanced with tremolo and brightness for distinguishing clinically important oxygen saturation ranges: a laboratory study. Anaesthesia, 71 (5), 565-572. doi: 10.1111/anae.13424
Koch, Sven H., Weir, Charlene, Westenskow, Dwayne, Gondan, Matthias, Agutter, Jim, Haar, Maral, Liu, David, Goerges, Matthias and Staggers, Nancy (2013). Evaluation of the effect of information integration in displays for ICU nurses on situation awareness and task completion time: a prospective randomized controlled study. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82 (8), 665-675. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.10.002
Liu, David, Gorges, Matthias and Jenkins, Simon A. (2012). University of Queensland vital signs dataset: Development of an accessible repository of anesthesia patient monitoring data for research. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 114 (3), 584-589. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318241f7c0
Liu, David, Jenkins, Simon A., Sanderson, Penelope M., Fabian, Perry and Russell, W. John (2010). Monitoring with head-mounted displays: A clinical evaluation in the operating room. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 110 (4), 1032-1038. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181d3e647
Liu, David and Jenkins, Simon (2009). Simulating capnography in software on the METI emergency care simulator. Simulation in Healthcare, 4 (4), 223-227. doi: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e318197d300
Liu, David, Jenkins, Simon A and Sanderson, Penelope M (2009). Patient monitoring with head-mounted displays. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 22 (6), 796-803. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32833269c1
Sanderson, Penelope M., Liu, David and Jenkins, Simon A. (2009). Auditory displays in anesthesiology. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, 22 (6), 788-795. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283326a2f
Liu, David, Jenkins, Simon, Sanderson, Penelope M., Watson, Marcus O., Leane, Terrence, Kruys, Amanda and Russell, W. John (2009). Monitoring with head-mounted displays: performance and safety in a full-scale simulator and part-task trainer. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 109 (4), 1135-1146. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181b5a200
Liu, David, Grundgeiger, Tobias, Sanderson, Penelope M., Jenkins, Simon A. and Leane, Terrence A. (2009). Interruptions and blood transfusion checks: Lessons from the simulated operating room. Anesthesia And Analgesia, 108 (1), 219-222. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818e841a
Sanderson, Penelope M., Watson, Marcus, Russell, W. J., Jenkins, S., Liu, David, Green, N., Llewelyn, K., Cole, P., Shek, Vivian and Krupenia, Stas (2008). Advanced Auditory Displays and Head-Mounted Displays: Advantages and Disadvantages for Monitoring by the Distracted Anesthesiologist. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 106 (6), 1787-1797. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31817325cb

Conference Papers

Santomauro, C., Powell, M., Davis, C., Liu, D., Aitken, L. and Sanderson, P. (2018). Interruptions to intensive care nurses lead to clinical errors. The 42nd Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care, Gold Coast, Australia, 11-13 October 2017. Philadelphia, PA United States: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.aucc.2017.12.038
Pascale, Michael, Sanderson, Penelope, Liu, Dave, Mohamed, Ismail, Brecknell, Birgit and Loeb, Robert (2016). Continuous information displays for multiple patient monitoring. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Washington, DC, United States, 19-23 September 2016. Santa Monica, CA, United States: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. doi: 10.1177/1541931213601358
Schlosser, Paul, Sanderson, Penelope, Grundgeiger, Tobias, Liu, David and Loeb, Robert G. (2016). The effect of conventional screens vs. head-mounted displays on alarm monitoring strategies. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016, Washington, DC, United States, 19-23 September 2016. Santa Monica, CA, United States: Human Factors an Ergonomics Society. doi: 10.1177/1541931213601357
Pascale, Michael, Sanderson, Penelope, Liu, David, Mohamed, Ismail, Stigter, Nicole and Loeb, Robert (2015). Peripheral detection for abrupt onset stimuli presented via head-worn display. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 26-30 October 2015. Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage. doi: 10.1177/1541931215591218
Tear, Callum L., Fox, Mithila, Tsai, Matthew, Liu, David and Sanderson, Penelope M. (2013). Detecting numerical and waveform changes on a head-mounted display vs. monitor. HFES 2013: 57th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 30 September-4 October 2013. Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/1541931213571253
Koch, Sven H, Westenskow, Dwayne, Weir, Charlene, Agutter, Jim, Haar, Maral, Görges, Matthias, Liu, David and Staggers, Nancy (2012). ICU nurse's evaluations of integrated information displays on user satisfaction and perceived mental workload. MIE 2012: XXIV Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Pisa, Italy, 26-29 August, 2012. Amsterdam, Netherlands: I O S Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-383
Liu, David, Sanderson, Penelope, M., Jenkins, Simon A., Watson, Marcus O. and Russell, W. John (2009). Patient monitoring in anesthesia with a head-mounted display: Simulator studies and a clinical trial. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Antonio Texas, USA, 19-23 October 2009. USA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. doi: 10.1518/107118109x12524442636986
Liu, David, Jenkins, Simon A. and Sanderson, Penelope M. (2009). Clinical implementation of a head-mounted display of patient vital signs. 2009 International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Linz, Austria, 4-7 September 2009. Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISWC.2009.36
Grundgeiger, T., Liu, D., Sanderson, P.M., Jenkins, S. and Leane, T. (2008). Effects of interruptions on prospective memory performance in anesthesiology. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 52nd Annual Meeting, New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, 22nd - 26th September 2008. United States: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Sanderson, P. M., Watson, M., Jenkins, S., Liu, D., Russell, W. J., Green, N. and Cole, P. (2007). Summative evaluation with a full-scale patient simulator: Challenges and adaptations. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting, Balimore, United States, 1-5 October 2007. United States: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.