The Alfred ICU is one of Australia’s largest intensive care units, with over 3000 admissions per annum.
The Alfred ICU employs over 40 full-time ICU Consultants, over 60 junior medical staff members, and over 600 nurses making it the largest ICU workforce in Australia. As a consequence, there is a deep commitment to ensuring staff wellbeing, and providing opportunities for professional growth and development.
We are university affiliated quaternary referral centre, providing State Services for heart & lung transplantation (including paediatric lung transplantation), mechanical circulatory support, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), burns and hyperbaric medicine. It also provides Victoria's Adult Cystic Fibrosis and Pulmonary Hypertension services.
The Alfred is one of two centres providing state services for adult trauma, HIV and bone marrow transplantation (autologous and allogeneic).
The Alfred lies at the heart of The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP), a partnership between Alfred Health, Monash University, the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and the Burnet Institute.
