Logan’s Emergency Department (ED) is continuing to embed research into everyday care.
For the second year in a row, ED clinicians have received research grants to help turn their ideas into projects that improve patient outcomes.
The achievement reflects renewed investment in the people and systems needed to support ongoing research. Director of Emergency Medicine Dr Yolande Weiner said the ED has a strong track record of research across a range of clinical areas.
“The achievement reflects a growing culture of inquiry, with staff actively contributing to projects that can be translated into real clinical practice,” Dr Weiner said.“We are proud to have been awarded these Research Capacity Building grants through the Emergency Medicine Foundation’s Queensland Research Program.”
Grant recipient Dr Philip Jones is leading one of the key projects. ASPIRE: Advancing Sustainable Practices in Research for Emergency Medicine focuses on building research skills and strengthening the department’s research culture.
The grant will fund a Clinical Research Coordinator to support staff, manage research tasks, and make it easier to run projects. It will also introduce mentoring and improve systems for grant applications, ethics approval, and data collection.
Dr Jordan Doi is also a grant recipient for the TEMPO study, which uses transoesophageal echocardiography to guide care during cardiac arrest. This approach uses heart imaging to help guide treatment. Logan is one of only two sites in Australia using this method during CPR.
More information on this approach will be shared in upcoming communications. Together, these projects are helping build a stronger foundation for research within the ED.