14 October 2025
When Ocean Grove resident Glyn Davison blacked out while driving on Christmas Eve, his life changed in an instant. Rushed to University Hospital Geelong (UHG) in severe heart failure, his organs were beginning to shut down. Thanks to the local ECMO team, Glyn was placed on ECMO, a life-support system that temporarily takes over the work of the heart, stabilising him long enough to be safely transferred to The Alfred Hospital for a life-saving heart transplant.
19 June 2024
When Sahela presented to the Royal Melbourne Hospital Emergency Department with abdominal pain after only 1 month in Australia, and at only 31 years of age, cardiac disease was the diagnosis furthest from his mind.
19 June 2024
Sitting at home, holding her newborn twin babies, Alexandra Judd looks like any overjoyed, doting Mum.
29 September 2022
Intensive care specialists from The Alfred will play a major role in new research that aims to better identify patients who will benefit most from the advanced for of life support, known as ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).
29 April 2022
A stunning treatment that is “hard to come to terms with” and involves an “unbelievable” machine is saving Covid patients’ lives.
27 October 2021
When Sergio felt a tingling sensation in the back of his throat, he quickly went and got tested for COVID-19.
21 July 2021
Specialists at The Alfred saved the lives of 50 COVID-19 patients with the use of ECMO during the height of the pandemic.
