User:Aoziwe/sandbox/Ultrasound Education Group
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| Motto | Research. Practice. Educate |
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| Founder(s) | Alistair and Colin Royse |
| Established | 2004 |
| Faculty | University of Melbourne |
| Adjunct faculty | Royal Melbourne Hospital |
| Staff | approx. 20 |
| Location | , , , Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°47′56″S 144°57′26″E / 37.7988857°S 144.9572005°E |
| Website | medicine |
The Ultrasound Education Group, also abbreviated as UEG, is a research and education group at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Department of Surgery.[1]
The Ultrasound Education Group, University of Melbourne is located inside the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, which is made up of over 40 hospitals, research, teaching and biotechnology organisations.
UEG’s research topics are transthoracic echocardiogram; transesophageal echocardiography for cardiac surgery; clinical point of care diagnostic ultrasound for heart, vascular, lungs, abdomen, invasive procedures. Other areas of research include cardiothoracic surgery; cardiothoracic anaesthesia; postoperative quality of recovery in surgery; and self-directed learning with ultrasound simulators.[2]
Notable Research Outcomes
[edit]- Patients in heart surgery have better probabilities of survival if arteries from their chest wall and arms are used to replumb their heart, instead of leg veins. By scrutinising 51,000 Australian patients, Melbourne researchers discovered the risk of dying prematurely was at least 22 per cent higher if any leg vein was used in coronary bypass surgery[3][4][5][6][7]
- Cardiac surgery relies heavily on donated blood because of the high blood transfusion rates. But a major study of over 5,000 heart surgery patients has now shown that surgeons can safely use significantly less blood than they have been. The potential saving is equivalent to around one blood donation (about 470 millilitres) per moderate-to-high risk patient.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ Lyon, Amanda. "RACGP - Wired for ultrasound". The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners at www.racgp.org.au. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ Canty, David; Barth, Jennifer; Yang, Yang; Peters, Nathan; Palmer, Andrew; Royse, Alistair; Royse, Colin (2019-02-01). "Comparison of learning outcomes for teaching focused cardiac ultrasound to physicians: A supervised human model course versus an eLearning guided self- directed simulator course". Journal of Critical Care. 49: 38–44. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2018.10.006. ISSN 0883-9441. PMID 30359924. S2CID 53115045.
- ^ Van Den Berg, Lucy (2017-11-17). "Hearty use of artery". Herald Sun www.heraldsun.com.au, p. 3. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ Wendling, Patrice (2018-10-17). "Forearm Blood Flow Preserved Long After Radial Artery Harvest". Medscape www.medscape.com. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ "Does any saphenous vein graft lead to worse late survival after coronary bypass surgery: A cohort study of 51,113 patients?" (PDF). The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, p. 28.
- ^ Allar, Daniel. "Radial artery use for CABG doesn't impact blood flow 20 years later". Cardiovascular Business. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ McKeown, L.A. (2018-10-08). "Twenty-Year Data Show No Negative Impact of Radial Artery Harvest on Blood Flow of CABG Patients". TCTMD by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) at TCTMD.com. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ Wiedersehn, Sarah (2017-11-20). "Saving lives with less donor blood". Yahoo 7 News at au.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ Trounson, Andrew (2017-11-13). "Saving lives with less blood". Pursuit. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- ^ Mazer, C. David; Whitlock, Richard P.; Fergusson, Dean A.; Belley-Cote, Emilie; Connolly, Katherine; Khanykin, Boris; Gregory, Alexander J.; de Médicis, Étienne; Carrier, François M. (2018-09-27). "Six-Month Outcomes after Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery". New England Journal of Medicine. 379 (13): 1224–1233. doi:10.1056/nejmoa1808561. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 30146969. S2CID 52091924.