Emergency & Trauma research

The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre (E&TC) is a tertiary referral centre for Victoria and provides a statewide emergency medical service for adult trauma, hyperbaric medicine, burns, HIV medicine, cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, haematological malignancies, heart and lung transplant and critical neurosurgery.

Research is concentrated on pre-hospital care, emergency medicine (EM) and trauma resuscitation and focuses on improving safety, satisfaction and quality. There is an emphasis on research methods education, evidence-based medicine and international development of EM.

The E&TC is a participant in the Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre under the critical care, trauma and perioperative medicine theme. This involves working with national research networks including:

  • Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group
  • ANZ College of Anaesthetists Clinical Trials Group
  • National Trauma Research Institute
  • Australasian Cochrane Centre
  • Monash University School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM)

Publications

Delayed intracranial hemorrhage after trauma

Mitra B, Ruggles T, Seah J, Miller C, Fitzgerald MC

(2021), BRAIN INJURY, 35(4), 484-9

DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2021.1887520

Rapid Administration of Methoxyflurane to Patients in the Emergency Department (RAMPED) Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Methoxyflurane Versus Standard Care

Brichko L, Gaddam R, Roman C, O'Reilly G, Luckhoff C, Jennings P, Smit V, Cameron P, Mitra B

(2021), Acad Emerg Med, 28(2), 164-71

DOI: 10.1111/acem.14144

Occurrence and timing of withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in traumatic brain injury patients: a CENTER-TBI study

van Veen E, van der Jagt M, Citerio G, Stocchetti N, Gommers D, Burdorf A, Menon DK, Maas AIR, Kompanje EJO, Lingsma HF; CENTER-TBI investigators and participants

(2021), INTENS CARE MED, 47(10), 1115-29

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-021-06484-1

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