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 to assist in continually improving the treatments available to patients in WA, Australia and around the world.   

 

Research interests and focus

The Centre of Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine (CCREM) is a research unit established at Royal Perth Hospital in 2008, in collaboration with the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, the RPH Research Foundation, and the University of WA.

 

The RPH ED has the unique feature of a small ‘wet lab’ space, where research nurses can assist Emergency Physicians to undertake ’on the spot’ time-critical research, integrated with the nearby CCREM laboratories for scientific investigations. CCREM has become a leading clinical trials centre for Emergency Medicine in Australasia, investigating conditions including:

  • Sepsis
  • Trauma
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Chest pain
  • Snake and spider bites
  • Drug overdose

 

Over the last 5 years, research at RPH ED in association with CCREM has resulted in improved clinical approaches to spontaneous pneumothorax, chest pain, sepsis, critical illness, anaphylaxis, snake envenoming and redback spider bite. Ongoing studies are expected to have similar impacts in the management of septic shock and illicit drug intoxications.

 

Example 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)

Emerging Drugs Network of Australia (EDNA)

Prof Daniel Fatovich (EMHS)

 

Last Updated: 02/11/2023