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Your support will help RPH Research Foundation continue to fund a variety of research and clinical trials needed to help improve treatments for patients in WA.
Research is the key to improving patient care. Your gift will help us to fund vital emergency medical research.
Without medical research, advances in diagnosis and treatment would not occur. In recognition of this, the Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation was established in 1983, with the aim of improving the quality of healthcare available to all West Australians.
Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) has one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the country, seeing close to 80,000 patients every year. Patients will present with a variety of conditions from heart attacks, pneumonia, and major brain injuries. Every day, the Emergency Department is a hive of activity.
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Hypertension is the biggest killer globally, accounting for more than 10 million deaths every year. In Australia, a third of all adults have high blood pressure, and half of them don’t even know it. Left untreated high blood pressure can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and eye disease. Research is the key to helping people with high blood pressure find new treatments and improve their quality of life.
Trauma centres around the world are expected to reconsider their use of a routinely employed medical device following the recent publication of ground-breaking WA Health-led research.
At the RPH Research Foundation, we believe in the transformative power of nursing research. We are dedicated to fostering innovation and excellence in nursing practice within the East Metropolitan Health Service, which includes the prestigious Royal Perth Hospital.
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Successful projects focus on Falls prevention, Palliative care, Tracheostomy Decannulation, and Cultural Sensitivity for Aboriginal Patients
Royal Perth Hospital Nurse Kelly-Ann Hahn has been awarded the Doreen McCarthy Nursing Research Grant 2023.
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