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Donors help fund Australian-first technology
6 April 2023
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.
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Dr Dashiell Gantner
Why talking about death is so important
29 July 2020
Working in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a consultant and medical donation specialist, Dr Dashiell Gantner understands that at the end of a person’s life, knowing that their choices will be respected is very important.
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Colonel Su Winter, Director of Clinical Services at the Taji Military Complex, 20km north of Baghdad, 2017.
Serving our country and our patients
11 November 2019
From Rwanda to Iraq, Colonel Su Winter has served in the Australian Army since medical school. 
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Patient Harry visits ICU
Crash survivor’s community thanks The Alfred
6 September 2019
Two months after a car crash nearly took the life of 18-year-old Harry, he’s back to visit the intensive care unit and trauma ward where he spent two weeks recovering. 
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Patient Toni Carroll with husband Jesse
ICU patient’s dream of marriage realised
1 June 2019
The Alfred’s ICU staff were honoured to help fulfil patient Toni Carroll’s dream of getting married to her partner and father of her two children, Jesse Welsh.
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ICU Nurse Jayne Sheldrake, former patient Stephanie Wilson and Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos in The Alfred's ICU
Ten years of advancement and care: ICU for all Victorians
14 December 2018
More critically ill and injured patients are being cared for in The Alfred’s 45-bed intensive care unit than ever before as the hospital marks 10 years since the modern facility opened its doors.
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Lung transplant recipient Mike with two of his care team.
Grateful father of three receives new lung
3 August 2018
Mike is encouraging everyone to consider organ donation, as he recovers at The Alfred following a lung transplant. 
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Professor David Pilcher and Dr Aidan Burrell
Flu season worst on record for ICUs
31 May 2018
Last year’s flu season was more severe than the 2009 swine flu outbreak and saw one in four ICU beds occupied by patients suffering severe complications from the flu, researchers at The Alfred have confirmed.
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Paying it forward
6 March 2018
When Alfred ICU and hyperbaric nurse Natalie McGregor was diagnosed with cancer, she found out how hard it was to be a patient – it left her emotionally and physically drained.
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