Fellow - Anaesthesia Trauma - 2025Alfred HealthAlfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory, to inpatient and home and community based services.The Alfred is part of Alfred Health, along with Sandringham Hospital and Caulfield Medical Centre in Melbourne. The Alfred is a tertiary referral centre where all adult surgical specialties are performed except obstetrics/gynae which occurs at Sandringham, where around 1600 babies are delivered/year alongside an orthopaedic and general surgery service. Sandringham also provides a limited paediatric surgery service, with 160 children aged 4 years and above cared for/year. The Alfred provides several state services including major trauma, burns and adult cardiothoracic transplantation and the anaesthetic department delivers over 26,000 anaesthetics/year across 18 operating theatres, endoscopy suites, procedure rooms and further off the floor locations in radiology, cardiology and ECT suites.AimsOur trauma fellowships offer experience in most fields of anaesthesia with a strong emphasis on developing advanced skills in the care of the trauma patient:
- Trauma patient reception and evaluation skills
- Involvement in ward based trauma patient care as part of the Alfred Trauma Unit ward service
- Airway management skills
- Vascular access and Resuscitation skills
- Interpretation of diagnostic imaging (FAST, Echo, CXR, cervical spine X-rays and CT scans),
- Provision of general and regional anaesthesia for a range of elective and emergency trauma cases, including neurotrauma, thoracic trauma, abdominal trauma, orthopedic trauma, facial trauma and burns.
- Provision of peri-operative analgesia.
- Procedural skills (e.g. cricothyroidotomy, RIC/MAC lines, intercostal tube thoracostomy, regional analgesia such as chest wall blocks)
- Management of massive transfusions, and knowledge of transfusion medicine.
- Develop research, audit and QA projects related to trauma medicine.
- Trauma Anaesthesia – for both in and out of hours, elective and emergency cases
- Facio-maxillary, Burns and Cardiothoracic lists as well as general anaesthesia duties
- Trauma unit ward rounds, participation in Trauma MDT meetings and attachments to the receiving Trauma Unit with attendance at ‘Trauma calls’.
- Participation in relevant skills and professional development courses
- Potential to collaborate with other units to facilitate training in procedures such as FAST, cricothyroidotomy, nasendoscopy, TTE/TOE and radiology interpretation.
- Arrangements with the Metropolitan Ambulance Service and other external services to gain exposure to the pre-hospital environment and to aeromedical retrieval (both primary and secondary).