Hospitals and Healthcare

I went into the hospital knowing nothing about our healthcare system. Those three weeks taught me life lessons that will never leave me.

Patients, even those not suffering from COVID-19, now suffer “in a medical version of solitary confinement.”

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

A comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians admitted to intensive care units reveals a “disturbing” difference in mortality outcomes. A new study has found Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are more likely to die within 12 months following an intensive care unit (ICU) admission than the general population. Analysis recently published in The Medical …

This sunflower crop was originally planted as a backdrop for a wedding later cancelled by bushfires – now it's being sold to help pandemic-weary nurses.

I’ve seen people die without their family. It used to bring me to tears. Now I just feel weary

Who gets scarce life-saving resources when hospitals are overwhelmed? And how are these decisions made? State and territory governments are yet to answer these difficult questions.

The aim of this website is to help rapidly orientate new staff who find themselves working in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the first time, and to provide a quick reference guide for problems that may be encountered. This should be used to complement your understanding, but not replace any local policies or protocols that your ICU may have.

This website is not pitched at people looking for a comprehensive guide to critical care, however some of the attached links do explore subjects at some depth. Content will continue to be updated and expanded over time.

Once our most intensive interventions end, we are left with this — a choice of tuna fish or chicken salad, or maybe some Oreos, brought up from the hospital basement.

Troubling numbers of physical restraint are being used on vulnerable children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

Adam Fitzpatrick, 20, was left brain-dead after “mistakes were made” in the intensive care unit of a major Sydney hospital.

It’s hard to tell from the data who’s still getting hospitalized with COVID. One frontline worker shares her observations.

Caring for seriously ill patients needing round-the-clock attention during the pandemic has added layers of commitment.

When Oona was born, she wasn't breathing, and spent a month in intensive care. Now, she's a nurse at the very same hospital where she was born, caring for babies going through the same thing.

Healthcare should not be limited by past decisions and most Australians would not be able to afford ‘astronomical’ cost of ICU, AMA says

ECMO uses an artificial heart and lung to replace the entire function of the person’s own heart and lungs outside the body. And COVID is demanding more ECMO than we’ve ever used before.

Healthcare workers on the sharp end of the pandemic are not just fighting a war against coronavirus, but combating a never-ending scourge of misinformation about the disease.

A team from Stillwater Medical Center in Oklahoma tries valiantly to save the life of a man who needs an ICU bed. Will they find a bed for him before times runs out?