St Vincent's Melbourne ICU

2026 SVHM Basic Assessment & Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) Courses

Posted January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 Ken SakuraiLeave a commentPosted in Blog, Education, News, Uncategorised

BASIC is an internationally recognised two-day course that teaches participants to assess critically ill patients and to provide initial treatment and organ support. It forms an integral component of foundation education in critical care medicine. Topics covered include:*Assessment of the critically ill patient*Airway management*Acute respiratory failure and Mechanical ventilation*Arterial blood gases*Trauma*Neurological emergencies*Acute renal failure and*Metabolic […]

2026 SVHM Echocardiography Courses

Posted January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 Ken SakuraiLeave a commentPosted in Blog, Education, News, Uncategorised

Dates for 2026 have now been released! This two-day course aims to help participants achieve competence in performing and interpreting transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the critical care setting.With 6-8 weeks of preparation using the outstanding University of Melbourne Transthoracic Echocardiography Simulator Course, that culminates in a two-day intensive workshop held at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne […]

2025 SVHM Echo Courses

Posted December 20, 2024August 7, 2025 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News, Uncategorised

Dates for 2025 have now been released. This two day course aims to help participants achieve competence in performing and interpreting transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the critical care setting.With 6-8 weeks of preparation using the outstanding University of Melbourne Transthoracic Echocardiography Simulator Course, that culminates in a two-day intensive workshop held at St Vincent’s Hospital […]

RMH Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Course

Posted September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News

Hosted at Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), this new addition to the RMH ICU academic calendar is an exciting course aimed at those with a foundation in critical care TTE, who are wishing to take their scanning skills and interpretation to the next level.

Critical Care Echocardiography Course Melbourne

Posted September 5, 2024September 5, 2024 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News

This popular course led by Intensivists and Anaesthetists is running again on the 25-26th November 2024 at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. It is ideal for those working and training in ICU, Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine. The course is also accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). To learn more and book now: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1159727

Closing soon: job applications for ICU doctors 2024

Posted June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News

It is that time of year and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne ICU is advertising for Residents, Junior Registrars, Senior Registrars and Transition Year Fellow positions. The applications close 18/6/2023! If you are applying from outside of SVHA make sure you use the relevant Seek external link. JR number Position Internal link External link JR130903 HMO3 […]

End of life vs palliative care

Posted July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 Elizabeth WinsonLeave a commentPosted in Blog, Opinions

Peer reviewed by Steven Musca This is part one of a series exploring dying in the ICU. The majority of people in Australia will die in hospital. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the critically unwell nature of our patients means we see more death than in the general ward setting. ICU mortality rates of […]

Reality of Severe COVID-19: over a year later

Posted January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

RNs invited to apply for the Masters Intensive Care Stream!

Posted July 22, 2021January 24, 2022 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News

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 […]

DonateLife week 2021 starts 25th July!

Posted July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Steven MuscaLeave a commentPosted in Blog, News

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 […]