St Vincent’s Melbourne ICU has seen many cases of severe COVID-19 infection. One of the most memorable is the story of Betty Mandarano. Betty spent over a month in ICU before eventually making it home to her very loving family. Her family was kind enough to start a fundraising campaign through the STV Foundation. Recently […]
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 […]
Post update 24-1-2022 2022 midyear Postgraduate Intensive Care students can undertake the Graduate Certificateof Critical Care (Intensive Care) with University of Melbourne (UoM) commencing 13th June2022. Contact Details:Nurse Unit Manager, Philippe Thomas, philippe.thomas@svha.org.auAlternate Contact:Graduate Coordinator, Allison Mawson, SVHM.Education.reception@svha.org.au Closing Date:11 February 2022 11:59pm Postgraduate Nursing Intensive Care: Master of Nursing Practice (Intensive Care) – Deakin […]
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 […]