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The EXCEL Registry aims to generate a binational multidisciplinary network of integrated care for critically ill patients requiring ECMO, and to monitor long-term outcomes and identify best practice.

  • ~160,000 Australians and New Zealanders are admitted to an ICU each year

  • ECMO costs > $200,000 (AUD) per admission and > $100 million (AUD) per year

  • ECMO use in Australia and New Zealand has doubled in the last 5 years

  • ECMO mortality at 30% for respiratory failure, 50% for cardiac failure (based on latest EXCEL Registry data)

We have partnered with patients, clinicians, scientists, engineers, researchers, healthcare providers and funders to provide detailed data about the use of ECMO and the outcomes of patients requiring ECMO in Australia and New Zealand. The data we provide will improve outcomes for patients by providing feedback that will change clinical practice.

– Prof Carol Hodgson, EXCEL Chief Investigator
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The EXCEL Registry

Australia's EXCEL Registry is leading the world in guiding how and when ECMO treatment is best used. Hear from leading intensive care experts about how we're enabling the transformation of care, and from survivors whose lived experience is shaping out research.

Background

ECMO is a new groundbreaking, lifesaving technology with the potential to save the lives of critically ill people. Read more about it here.

Our people

The EXCEL Registry brings together an international network of experienced and talented critical care researchers.

Research

Registry data underpins several key studies that will answer important questions about best use of ECMO.

News and outputs

The latest news, publications, reports and podcasts from the EXCEL Registry.

Survivor stories

Insights and revelations from ECMO survivors that offer a glimpse into how this intervention can affect lives.

ECMO patient information

For patients seeking more information regarding ECMO and their stay in ICU.

Our news highlights

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

Health Minister announces funding for life-saving heart/lung machine research

Monash University news

Research to identify patients who will benefit most from a life-saving machine that acts as the heart and lungs following organ failure has received a $1 million Federal Government funding boost.

Public Health and Preventive Medicine

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

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

$19.3 million for rare cancer and rare disease research

Researchers in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences will receive $19,324,213 under the 2021 Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Need (RCRDUN) grant opportunity.

Research
Monash University news

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
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