RPH Emergency Medicine

RPH has the longest-serving Emergency Department (ED) in the state, providing emergency care since 1906. Our ED is very active in research, aiming to advance emergency care available to patients in WA, Australia and around the world. 

The Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine (CCREM) is a unique unit established at Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia that brings together clinical staff working in the Emergency Department (ED) and laboratory scientists using immunological and molecular biological techniques. CCREM investigates a number of conditions within the spectrum of disease treated by EDs including: 

• Sepsis and septic shoch (www.arisefluids.org, Critical Illness in Shock Study)
• Emergency and illicit drugs (Emergency Drugs Network of Australia)
• Concussion and traumatic brain injury (AUS mTBI)
• Trauma Management (FEISTY II) 
• Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI-ED)
• Influenza and effectiveness of influenza vaccines (FluCAN)
• Snake and spider envenoming (Australia Snakebite Project)
• Alcohol-related ED Presentations (WA Model for Violence Protection)

Over the years, research at RPH ED led CCREM has resulted in improved clinical approaches to spontaneous pneumothorax, chest pain, sepsis, critical illness, anaphylaxis, illicit drug intoxications, snake envenoming and redback spider bite. Ongoing studies are expected to have similar impacts. 

Check out our 2024 Annual Report here

Our projects

ARISE FLUIDS: Australasian Resuscitation in Sepsis Evaluation: FLUid or vasopressors In emergency Department Sepsis

CPI Prof Sandra Peake (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA) and Clin A/Prof Stephen Macdonald (EMHS)

www.arisefluids.org

Emerging Drugs Network of Australia (EDNA)

Prof Daniel Fatovich (EMHS)

The Emerging Drugs Network of Australia

EDNA Reflections