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  • 1 in 2 Australians will be admitted to an ICU during their life

  • 63K Australians require mechanical ventilation each year (pre-COVID)

  • 50% mechanically ventilated patients have disability 6 months post-admission

  • Life support costs Australia $1.5 billion per year

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Monash University news

First long-term data on life-saving ECMO treatment published

A world first study, led by critical care researcher Professor Carol Hodgson, has found that following life support involving Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, death and disability were common, with just one third of patients alive and without disability at six months after starting treatment.

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

AI with a heart: Neural network predicts survival of critically ill patients on heart-lung bypass

Monash University news

A research team led by engineers and cardiologists from Monash University has used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop an algorithm to accurately predict the survival of intensive care patients who need external heart-lung support

Engineering & technology 11 August 2023

Not getting over it: The long, rocky road to recovery from COVID-19

New research has found that months after recovering from critical illness with COVID-19, one in five people had died, and almost half of intensive care survivors had developed a new disability.

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Better outcomes for critically ill patients the focus of new research centre

Professor Carol Hodgson will lead a new Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) that will rapidly generate and translate new knowledge for patients who require invasive life support in intensive care settings.

Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University news

New study to track Australian survivors of COVID-19 after hospital discharge

A new study led by an ICU specialist working at the epicentre of the Victorian outbreak will help Australia prepare to meet the needs of COVID-19 patients

Public Health and Preventive Medicine
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