Intensive Care Unit (ICU) - Registrar / Fellow
The Alfred Department of Intensive Care is a state of the art 65 bed unit that treats approximately 3000 patients per year.
The Alfred ICU provides Victorian state services for heart & lung transplantation (including paediatric lung transplantation), artificial heart technology, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), burns and hyperbaric medicine. The Alfred is one of two centres providing state services for adult trauma, HIV and bone marrow transplantation (autologous and allogeneic). In addition, most other surgical and medical subspecialties are represented in the case-mix in keeping with the quaternary referral centre status of The Alfred. There is an ICU-based echocardiography service with regular education sessions and opportunities for hands-on training.
The Alfred Department of Intensive Care is accredited for 2 core years of training as stipulated by the College of Intensive Care Medicine.