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Hector and wife Ana surrounded by the ICU team
Hector’s incredible fight for survival
30 August 2023
Earlier this year, Hector Saenz became the second person in Australia to receive a lung transplant following COVID-19 – after six months in The Alfred ICU, more than 4000 hours of critical care from 1500 medical professionals, and the longest recorded stint on ECMO.
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Trial leads pose with an ECMO machine.
Melbourne dad saved by Australian-first trial
1 May 2023
When 43-year-old Melbourne dad Mark Wohlers suffered a cardiac arrest last year, it was the swift emergency response and an Australian-first clinical trial that gave him a second chance at life.
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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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Remembering Black Saturday
7 February 2022
Black Saturday was one of the worst bushfire disasters in Australian history, with 173 Victorians losing their life across over 400 individual fires.
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The Alfred’s ICU still busier than ever
27 November 2021
The Alfred’s ICU is busier than ever, treating some of the country’s most critically ill patients in record numbers.
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