Eddie: an avid Tigers supporter, a runner and a legend! Unfortunately, being unvaccinated, Eddie’s body struggled to fight off COVID-19. The massive inflammatory response saw him fighting for his life on a ventilator, being flipped on his front by a team of nurses and doctors (“proning”) and being administered all the medications with evidence to […]
Peter came into hospital to have major cardiac surgery to fix two heart valves. Unfortunately after the long surgery the right side of Peter’s heart started to fail. In the middle of the night, in an induced coma in the ICU, he was in a fight for his life. His vital organs were starting to […]
Postgraduate Nursing Intensive Care: Master of Nursing Practice (Intensive Care) – Deakin (2022) Do you want to commence your Intensive Care nursing career in a supportive, collaborative environment where you will receive diverse exposure to a range of clinical conditions and management of complex patients? St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne ICU, Department of Critical Care Medicine is […]
We’re joining The Great Registration Race for DonateLife Week Right now in Australia, there are about 13 million people eligible to register as organ and tissue donors, but they haven’t signed up. Are you one of them? There are around 1,800 Australians currently waiting for an organ transplant. A further 12,000 are on dialysis and […]
We are currently recruiting for 2022 and are looking for enthusiastic trainees to join our ICU team! Job applications are open until 10/6/2021 followed by short listing and interviews. Jobs start in Feb 2022. Junior Registrars Internal Posting https://svha.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SVHA_SVHM/job/Fitzroy-Melbourne/Junior-Intensive-Care-Registrar_JR117390-1 External Posting https://www.seek.com.au/job/52225346 Senior Registrars Internal Posting https://svha.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SVHA_SVHM/job/Fitzroy-Melbourne/Senior-Intensive-Care-Registrar_JR117392-1 External Posting https://www.seek.com.au/job/52225778
As ICU clinicians we work tirelessly to improve the care for our patients. We are privileged to be there for our patients, their families and friends in sometimes the most challenging moments of their lives. Families often ask us how they can best offer their thanks or contribute to the ICU. There are many ways […]
This presentation covers normal and disordered sleep by Respiratory Physician and Intensivist A/Prof John Santamaria.
This is part one of an excellent introduction to statistics series presented by ICU Director A/Prof John Santamaria.
Betty spent over a month in St Vincent’s Melbourne ICU for critical illness secondary to COVID-19. She had two runs on a mechanical ventilator and was proned (nursed on her front rather than back whilst in a medically induced coma) for long periods of time to improve her lung function. After this, she required a […]
Melbourne is amidst a second wave of COVID-19, with many more patients requiring Intensive Care than previously. See the ABC news 7:30 report below to learn about some of the homegrown trials occurring around Melbourne ICUs, including our very own Nebulised Heparin (CHARTER) trial led by Dr Barry Dixon! Skip to 7 min 18 sec […]