NEWS & EVENTS
Webinar: The View from ICU
COVID Critical founder Prof John Fraser was recently joined by two of our valued members, Prof Carol Hodgson and Dr Dan Meyer, to present “The View From ICU”, a webinar hosted by The Australia Institute.
Long Term COVID Studies Ask: What Happens After Hospital Discharge?
Patricia Karvelas, of ABC (Australia) interviews COVID Critical research partner Prof Carol Hodgson, of Monash University, on ‘Afternoon Briefing’.
Study to examine long-term virus recovery
COVID Critical research partner Prof Carol Hodgson, of Monash University, interviewed by Australian Associated Press
Connecticut’s Hartford Hospital part of global COVID-19 study
Ethan Kurtzman, mechanical circulatory support clinical program coordinator for Hartford HealthCare, talks about a COVID-19 study of which Hartford Hospital is a part.
Experts discuss Hartford HealthCare’s part in global COVID-19 study
Ethan K. Kurtzman, Mechanical Circulatory Support Clinical Program Coordinator with Hartford HealthCare, tells us about the global COVID-19 study that Hartford Hospital is a part of and what types of data will be collected
Johns Hopkins joins worldwide study of impact of COVID-19 on ICU patients
Doctors at Johns Hopkins are now officially part of the global fight against coronavirus. They joined the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, which brings together the best medical minds and newest research on the disease from around the world.
Meet COVID Critical’s ICU Nurse Researchers
Since February, Amanda, Indy and Lacey have all joined the COVID Critical research funded by the community of The Common Good. They coordinate over 300 hospital sites in Australia and internationally, ensuring the sites have everything they need to collect and share data to provide a clear picture of how COVID is impacting ICUs around the world.
WHAT is ECMO and How is it Saving the Lives of COVID patients in Critical Care?
There is another technique you may not have heard of that's starting to be used more and more frequently in very severe cases of COVID-19, according to intensive care specialist John Fraser — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO.
Wesley Medical Research Panel Pledge Live at the COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Centre Opening
On June 18th 2020, Wesley Medical Research and its world-renowned local research leadership team pledged its support to the global medical community, to fast track answers to combat COVID-19, at the official opening of the COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Centre.
Global study of ICU data to guide COVID-19 treatments
Queensland researchers are leading a worldwide clinical study using AI to examine COVID-19 patient data from 300 intensive care units (ICU) to provide insight for health professionals to determine the best treatments for the disease.
‘Right now, the average Australian can save more lives than I can - stay home’
Right now, the average Australia can save more lives than I can,” he told me. “Most people don’t get that chance very often, to save more lives than an ICU doctor. But right now, they can do that, just by self-isolating properly.
The coronavirus truth is out there – and an Aussie team is hot on its trail
The challenge is formidable. Just three months ago it was a completely unknown disease. Now, as patients flood into intensive care units, experienced specialists are flying blind, with no proven protocols for effective treatment.
One Day at a Time
This past week Australian Story filmed with five different people to capture their unique responses and solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. Tonight, you'll meet an innovative choirmaster, a proactive intensivist, a psychiatrist with some ideas about how to handle anxiety, and a resilient school principal. It’s a unique insight into an historic week.
Global Effort to Collect Data on Ventilated Patients With COVID-19
As the new chair of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), John Fraser, MBChB, PhD, began talking with the group’s members last November about why influenza affects some people worse than others, so much so that they require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Maybe 10 people, representing a minority of the chapter’s 46 member institutions, said they were interested in exploring that question, Fraser recalled a few months later.