Specialty Units
Some of the specialty units within The Alfred Hospital include:
- Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit
- Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology - unique in Australia
- Helen Macpherson Smith Burns Unit - unique in Victoria
- Infectious Diseases Unit - includes state HIV/AIDS service
- Lung Transplant Unit - second largest in the world
- Psychiatry Unit accommodating 60 acute inpatients
- State Major Trauma Service - including road trauma centre
- The Heart Centre - World Health Organization Centre for Research and Training
- Largest Mechanical Circulatory Support Service in Australasia (Ventricular Assist Devices)
- Largest Adult ECMO centre in Australia
- Largest Hyperbaric unit in the Southern hemisphere
- William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre - Specialists in Brachytherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and General External Beam Therapy.
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