Alfred Health
Family members and carers can play a key role in the patient recovery process, and we hope the following information assists you when visiting your loved one in ICU.
There are a number of conditions when visiting ICU, including who can visit, when and how to make a booking.
Earlier this year, Hector Saenz became the second person in Australia to receive a lung transplant following COVID-19 – after six months in The Alfred ICU, more than 4000 hours of critical care from 1500 medical professionals, and the longest recorded stint on ECMO.
When 43-year-old Melbourne dad Mark Wohlers suffered a cardiac arrest last year, it was the swift emergency response and an Australian-first clinical trial that gave him a second chance at life.
In an Australian first, The Alfred Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is now home to a mobile computed tomography (CT) scanner. With no other ICU in the country using mobile CT, the installation of the machine in 2022 was the culmination of a six-year project to revolutionise the way ICU patients, especially those who need head CT scans, are cared for. Costing just more than $1 million to purchase and install, the project could never have been achieved without the $850,000 generously contributed by the community.