Alfred Health
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:
The ARISE study, a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Early Goal-Directed Therapy in patients (n = 1600) presenting to Australasian emergency departments (EDs) with severe sepsis, was completed in September 2014.
Find out morePATCH, RESPOND and POLAR studies all continue enrolment of patients.
Find out moreThe BioBIT study, examining novel biomarkers in brain injury funded by The Alfred commenced enrolling patients.
Find out moreEvans LR, Fitzgerald MC, Varma D, Mitra B
(2018), Injury, 49(1),
Ashok A, Cabalag M, Taylor DM
(2017), Emerg Med Australas, 29(4), 394-9
Winearls J, Mitra B, Reade MC
(2017), Curr Opin Anaesthesiol, 30(2), 265-76
Victoria’s State of Emergency (SOE) measures resulted in almost 40 per cent less people presenting to Alfred Health’s emergency departments earlier this year, prompting doctors to issue an urgent call for people to continue seeking medical care if they need it.
People self-isolating with COVID-19 will be able to have their health watched over from afar, thanks to a hospital-monitored software system that gets smarter with each patient cared for.
Emergency department presentations at The Alfred and Sandringham Hospital remain at their lowest levels in years as Victorians continue to adhere to the stage-three COVID-19 restrictions and stay home.
