Congratulations to CCS's NHMRC Investigator grant recipients!

L-R top row: Prof Helmut Butzkueven, Prof Paul Fitzgerald,
Dr Emma Halmos. L-R bottom row: Prof Anne Holland,
Dr Jason Ong, A/Prof Anneke van der Walt

NHMRC Investigator grants were announced this morning by Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, Monash receiving in total close to $47M. See Monash announcement.

Twenty-six researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences received funding for their projects. See Faculty story.

Congratulations to Central Clinical School's NHMRC Investigator grant recipients! See more about the CCS projects, below. The grant income for the school from this round totals $10M across the period 2021-2025.

Commiserations to our researchers whose grants were ranked very highly, but nonetheless missed out.

ICU research on aerosol boxes reveals problems

While a barrier box to prevent the spread of aerosolised respiratory droplets from critically ill patients during intubation might seem like a good idea at first glance, a critical analysis by intensive care unit (ICU) practitioners reveals that's not necessarily so.

ICU specialists from Monash University and Cabrini Health teamed up to assess two different types of aerosol boxes that have been rapidly developed and sold. They found that aerosol boxes may increase intubation times and therefore expose patients to the risk of hypoxia (lack of oxygen).

12-18 May 2020 Central Clinical School recent publications

Prof Andrew Spencer is co-author
on an ANZ consensus statement re
how best to manage blood cancers
during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent publications as notified by PubMed during the week 12-18 May 2020 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. This is not a comprehensive list:

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
• Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Medicine - Peninsula
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
• Surgery & National Trauma Research Institute