Take care this holiday season
The Alfred emergency team is ramping up for the festive season – after last year’s holiday period saw a spike in road trauma injuries, falls and alcohol-related presentations to the Emergency Department (ED).
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)
Current research
The ARISE study
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 moreNurse Practitioner effectiveness for timely analgesia
Find out morePATCH, RESPOND and POLAR studies
PATCH, RESPOND and POLAR studies all continue enrolment of patients.
Find out moreExamining novel biomarkers in brain injury
The BioBIT study, examining novel biomarkers in brain injury funded by The Alfred commenced enrolling patients.
Find out morePublications
Usefulness of laboratory and radiological investigations in the management of supraventricular tachycardia
Ashok A, Cabalag M, Taylor DM
(2017), Emerg Med Australas, 29(4), 394-9
Haemotherapy algorithm for the management of trauma-induced coagulopathy: an Australian perspective
Winearls J, Mitra B, Reade MC
(2017), Curr Opin Anaesthesiol, 30(2), 265-76
Descriptive characteristics and in-hospital mortality of critically bleeding patients requiring massive transfusion: results from the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry
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
Latest news
Preventable ladder falls causing severe injuries
Trauma specialists are urging Victorians to take care cleaning gutters and preparing the home for Christmas as the number of patients arriving at The Alfred with life-threatening injuries caused by ladder falls continues to rise.
The Alfred’s multi-million-dollar Emergency & Trauma Centre upgrade complete
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.