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Our body requires oxygen to survive but sometimes despite all conventional treatments our body simply can’t get the oxygen it needs that’s where Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (or ECMO) comes in. ECMO keeps oxygen and blood pumping through the lungs and heart, keeping those at high risk of death alive but it comes with its own set of complications.
While any surgery is a physical shock to the body, major surgeries such as open heart and transplant are some of the most traumatic with the longest recoveries. Amazingly, although Cardiopulmonary bypass is used in the majority of heart surgeries in Australia each year, we are still unaware of many of the effects bypass could be having on the body, including the ability to process vital medications critical to recovery.
A fever, chills down your spine, heart racing and nausea; these are all things you might feel if you have severe infection (or sepsis). In Australia, severe infection will hospitalise about 15,000 people, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends they are treated one of two ways; fluid resuscitation and/or blood transfusion. However, alarmingly, an award-winning study has revealed that these guidelines could actually lead to heart failure and vascular collapse.
https://youtu.be/WatEqEkrwx8 When thinking of mechanical engineering you’d be forgiven for automatically picturing cars, trucks and heavy machinery engines rather than devices used to save lives, and that is exactly where...
This is a world first project using fibre optics to create a responsive heart pump.
Your incredible generosity and support has helped to start the research careers of over 200 nurses, doctors, health practitioners and students, and funded close to $ 2 million in New...
Meet Dr Jo Pauls, a career researcher whose heart is open to the world. Jo Pauls is an ambitious researcher, working on two major research projects in the Innovative Cardiovascular...
The doctors and researchers at The Prince Charles Hospital are part of many special moments in the lives of their patients. Seeing someone who is critically ill make a full...
Growing skin cells may be one solution to helping battle cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death globally and there aren’t enough donor hearts to match...