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
Alfred Health has extensive processes in place to safely assess and manage any patients with viral infections, including novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
This page will be updated with information about patients transferred from New Zealand as it becomes available.
Trauma specialists from The Alfred have spoken out about the reality of Christmas in the Emergency and Trauma Centre in an attempt to curb the ever-increasing number of people seriously injured over the festive season.
