Grants
Current
NHMRC Aus-ROC Centre of Research Excellence (#2035259)
Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) ($3,000,000) 2025-2029
Contact Investigator: Prof Janet Bray
This Aus-ROC CRE aims to optimise the emergency response to save lives. We aim to investigate a comprehensive solution to improve bystander and EMS response to OHCA. We will investigate innovative health strategies, including cutting-edge technology, to enhance the efficacy and sophistication of the emergency response for OHCA.
Epistry: Developing a national strategy for improving OHCA outcomes
Funding: Heart Foundation Vanguard ($150,000) 2024-2025
Contact Investigator: Prof Janet Bray
The Aus-ROC Epistry Management Committee aims to use innovative mathematical simulations to predict the impact of potential intervention strategies on lives saved in every LGA across Australia.
Epistry: The impact of EMS agency factors and resuscitation practice on OHCA outcomes across Australia and New Zealand
Funding: Australian Resuscitation Council ($20,000) 2024-2025
Contact Investigator: Prof Janet Bray
The Aus-ROC Epistry Management Committee aims to examine the impact of EMS agency factors and resuscitation practice on OHCA outcomes across Australia and New Zealand.
Completed
Reduction of oxygen after cardiac arrest: The EXACT trial
Funding: 2015 NHMRC Project Grant ($1,891,020)
We conducted a Phase 3 multi-centre, randomised, controlled trial to determine whether reducing oxygen administration to target a normal level as soon as possible following successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, compared to current practice of maintaining 100% oxygen, improves patient survival at hospital discharge.
Epistry: Identifying strategies to improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Australia and New Zealand.
Funding: National Heart Foundation; $150,000
The Aus-ROC Epistry Management Committee aims to identify key factors underpinning the variation in survival seen across Australia and New Zealand. This project will use geospatial mapping using the Epistry data.
Comparing risk-adjusted outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between ambulance services in Australia and New Zealand
Funding: Australian Resuscitation Council (Victorian Branch); $10,000.
The Aus-ROC Epistry Management Committee aims to investigate differences in outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) between ambulances services across Australia and New Zealand. This project will use novel statistical methods to benchmark ambulance services using data from the Aus-ROC Australian and New Zealand OHCA Epistry.
Developing a community-based CPR education program
Funding: National Heart Foundation; $75,000
Dr Janet Bray, Dr Lahn Straney, Associate Professor Karen Smith and Professor Judith Finn have been awarded a $75,000 Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant to develop community-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) education programs. Their application to the Heart Foundation also won them the Ross Hohnen Award for Research Excellence for the most outstanding and innovative Vanguard Grant application, providing an extra $10,000 on top of the grant. The grant will be used to understand why bystander CPR rates are low in specific regions of Victoria, Such information will be used to inform the design and development of an intervention which the researchers hope to conduct and evaluate with future funding.
The RINSE Study
Funding: NHMRC Project Grant 2011-2015; $677,888
Contact Investigator: Professor Steve Bernard
The Rapid Infusion of Cold Normal Saline (RINSE) study is a randomised controlled trial, to determine whether paramedic initiated cooling during CPR (using a rapid intravenous infusion of ice-cold normal saline) improves patient survival outcomes compared with usual practice in patients who are being resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Post-resuscitation care in Victoria: understanding current practice to improve outcomes for OHCA patients.
Funding: Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Limited ($50,000); Ian Jacob’s Fellowship, Australian Resuscitation Council ($10,000).
Contact Investigator: A/Prof Janet Bray
Dr Janet Bray, Dr Lahn Straney, Associate Professor Karen Smith, Professor Stephen Bernard, Dr Dion Stub and Professor Judith Finn have been awarded $50,000 to conduct an audit of post-arrest care across Victorian Hospitals. Dr Bray also awarded $10,000 from the Ian Jacob’s Fellowship (Australian Resuscitation Council) to extend the audit to smaller regional hospitals.
