Alfredhealth.org.au Website Review

external-link icon-resource-website icon-resource-website Our emergency team is urging everyone to have a safe and happy holiday after last year's festive season saw a spike in injuries We are relocating some services and improving others Find out more Providing leading healthcare for the people of Melbourne and Victoria. Find your way around The Alfred with your phone. Do*nload PowerNav today. While diving with his family in New Caledonia in October, 24-year-old Liam Mangan-Smith ran out of air at 16 metres below the surface. The Alfred emergency team is ramping up for the festive season – after last year’s holiday period saw a spike in road trauma injuries, falls and alcohol-related presentations to the Emergency Department (ED). Emergency and Trauma specialists at The Alfred are urging road users to take care and slow down during this busy time of year. The Life Support Committee and their network of friends and as*ociates invite you to join them in support of The Alfred at the must attend event on the summer social calendar, the 2019 Alfa Romeo Portsea Polo.  The annual event on the Mornington Peninsula is the setting for the committee’s most fabulous fundraising initiative of the year.  Our Research Course is a semester-long program run conjointly by Monash University and The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre. It is relevant to emergency, trauma and critical care physicians and is equivalent to two post graduate units (12 credit points) for a Master of Clinical Medicine or Master of Public Health (TBC) at Monash University. We are seeing more patients with serious injuries from ladder falls. Helmets and a buddy to help are just two safet… While diving with his family in New Caledonia, Liam ran out of air at 16 meters below the surface. “I remember everything going quiet and I realised that’s it,” he said. He made a rapid ascent to the surface that resulted in an unusual case of ‘the bends’. Our Hyperbaric Unit is a state-wide service that helps divers like Liam recover...