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 moreAshok 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
Ruseckaite R, McQuilten ZK, Oldroyd JC, Richter TH, Cameron PA, Isbister JP, Wood EM
(2017), Vox Sang, 112(3), 240-8
DOI: 10.1111/vox.12487
The Alfred has increased its capacity to care for the state’s sickest and most severely injured patients thanks to a multi-million-dollar upgrade of the Eva and Les Erdi Emergency and Trauma Centre.
The Emergency and Trauma Centre at The Alfred is one of the country’s busiest and unfortunately at Easter it’s even busier than usual.
The Alfred has provided medical service to the Australian Grand Prix for 22 years, setting up a portable medical centre equipped with the essential tools and medicines needed to respond to everything from minor medical issues through to life-threatening injuries.
