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    • Pharmacy
    • Professorial Academic Unit
    • Radiology
    • Surgery and Specialties
    • Women’s Health
  • Ethics & Governance
    • Office for Research
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    • New Governance Applications
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Intensive Care

Research interests include sedation, renal replacement therapy, nutrition, echocardiography and ultrasound, extracorporeal techniques, mechanical ventilation and sepsis. The department is a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group (CTG) and has collaborated on numerous multi-centre trials. Collaboration with industry has evaluated methods of oxygen delivery that has been published and presented.  The Department has published in excess of 100 peer reviewed publications and presented extensively both locally and internationally over the last decade.

Research Goal: To undertake sustainable and translational research that delivers evidence-based care of the critically ill.

Active Research

  • ULTRAWEAN
  • AnchorFast audit
  • AMINO-III
  • ANZ-CODE
  • PRE-DELIRIC
  • Nebulised Heparin Trial
  • TARGET Trial
  • Pressure Injury Prediction in the ICU (PIPICU)
  • PLUS study
  • PROTECTIN trial

Publications

Recent Publications

  • Effect of Dexmedetomidine added to standard care on ventilator-free time in patients with agitated delirium: a randomised clinical trial.
  • Early experience of a novel extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal device in management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure
  • Intravenous amino acid therapy for kidney function in critically ill patients: a randomised controlled trial. Intensive Care Medicine
  • Intensive care discharge delay is associated with increased hospital length of stay: a multicentre prospective observational study
  • Effects of hypercapnia and hypercapnic acidosis on hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated patients

Staff

  • Professor John Botha
    Head of Department

    Has been site investigator of numerous CTG trials and was on the Management Committee of the NHMRC funded Nephroprotect Trial.

    View Monash Pure profile
  • Professor Ravindranath Tiruvoipati
    Director ICU Research

    Is investigating the role of C02 in mechanically ventilated patients. He has extensive experience in ECMO and was a lead investigator in the CESAR study published in the Lancet.

    View Monash Pure profile
  • Kavi Haji
    Intensivists / PhD Student

    Is conducting a PhD on the role of bedside echocardiography and ultrasound on management of the critically ill.

    View Monash Pure profile
  • Ashwin Subramanian
    Intensivists
  • Associate Professor Ian Carney
    Intensivists
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Sachin Gupta
    Intensivists
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Joanne Stewart
    Unit Manager JoanneStewart@phcn.vic.gov.au
  • Kirsty Sullivan
    Unit Manager KSullivan@phcn.vic.gov.au

Contact us

Director of Research
Professor Velandai Srikanth
velandai.srikanth@monash.edu
(03) 9788 1722

Manager, Office for Research
Lee-Anne Clavarino
lclavarino@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2679

Ethics and Governance
HREC@phcn.vic.vic.au

Research Governance
RGO@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2680

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Frankston Hospital
Frankston VIC, 3199

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