Dr. Francoeur has been an attending physician in both internal medicine and critical care, as well as a clinical professor at the CHU de Québec – Laval University, since 2014. He joined the Population Health and Optimal Health Practice Research Unit at the CHU de Québec-Laval University in 2017 as a research associate. After receiving his medical degree in 2007 from Université de Sherbrooke, he trained in internal medicine at Laval University in Quebec, and in critical care medicine at the University of Montreal. He completed his master’s degree in epidemiology at the Columbia University of New York in 2016, as well as a clinical fellowship training in neurocritical care at Mount Sinai Hospital, also in New York.
Dr. Francoeur’s research focuses mainly on neurocritical care. Treatment and prevention of secondary insults in patients suffering severe brain injury and optimization of neuroresuscitation are the mainstay of his research efforts.
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Neuromonitoring with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a systematic review protocol
Journal ArticleBMJ Open, 10 (11), 2020.
Cardiac donation after circulatory death: the heart of the matter
Journal ArticleCan J Anaesth, 67 (3), 2020.
Innate immunity activation in the early brain injury period following subarachnoid hemorrhage
Journal ArticleJ Neuroinflammation, 16 (1), 2019.
The EMCOOLs surface cooling system for fever control in neurocritical care patients: A pilot study
Journal ArticleClin Neurol Neurosurg, 184 , 2019.
Jamestown Canyon encephalitis with NORSE and electrographic response to ribavirin: a case report
Journal ArticleEpilepsia Open, 3 (2), 2018.
Desmopressin administration and rebleeding in subarachnoid hemorrhage: analysis of an observational prospective database
Journal ArticleJ Neurosurg, 2018.
Neuroprotection in sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome
Book ChapterReich DL, Mayer S, Uysal S (Ed.): Neuroprotection in Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9780190280253.
Management of delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage
Journal ArticleCrit Care, 20 (1), 2016.
Multimodality Monitoring: Illuminating the Comatose Human Brain
Journal ArticleSemin Neurol, 36 (6), 2016.
Hepatic Disease and the Brain
Book ChapterLouis ED, Mayer SA, Rowland LP (Ed.): Merritt's Neurology, pp. 1030-1036, Philadelphia, PA, Wolters Kluwer / LWW, 2015, ISBN: 9781451193367.
Recently finished projects
- BRAINapt: TBI International Platform Trial, from 2023-10-01 to 2024-03-31
- The NeurO2 study: optimal brain oxygenation in neurocritically ill patients, from 2020-10-01 to 2024-03-31