Alfred Intensive Care Unit

Hyperbaric

The Alfred provides Victoria’s State Service for Hyperbaric Medicine, using a large, triple compartment rectangular hyperbaric chamber facility located immediately adjacent the intensive care unit.

The Alfred Intensive Care Unit first took responsibility for providing a diving and hyperbaric medicine service for Victoria in 1987 and the Service has since developed world leading hyperbaric intensive care capabilities, in addition to providing for hundreds of inpatients and outpatients with problem wounds and infections each year.

The Alfred provides Victoria's State Service for Hyperbaric Medicine, using a large, triple compartment rectangular hyperbaric chamber facility located immediately adjacent the intensive care unit. This enables the provision of hyperbaric oxygen to critically ill patients when indicated, without the patient having to be moved from their normal bed. The facility also treats divers with decompression illness and provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy for a wide range of problems such as refractory wounds, infections and post radiotherapy complications.

The main hyperbaric chamber is currently undergoing a major renovation and a temporary facility is being used to maintain essential services in the meantime. The Hyperbaric Service will become fully operational again in early 2011 as a world leading, state of the art facility incorporating both multiplace and monoplace chamber systems.

 

Staff

The hyperbaric team is led by Dr. Tim Leong, Deputy Director of ICU, Head of Hyperbaric Service and Quality Improvement, and Sharon Hade, Nurse Unit manager.

There are 3 Hyperbaric Specialists: Drs. Ian Millar, Andrew Fock and Wei Ch'ng.

Registrars will rotate through from ICU commencing in 2011.

There are 5 Technicians: Christian Allen, Paul Axton, Dwayne Cananzi, Lester Smith and Ben Begley.

 

Referrals

Referrals to the hyperbaric service can be made by specialists or general practitioners.
Contact details:
Ph 03 9076 2269
Fax 03 9076 3052
hyperbaric@alfred.org.au

Urgent referrals may be made direct to the hyperbaric registrar or consultant on call via The Alfred’s switch: 03 9076 2000

 

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