Intensive Care Appeal

As recently as 30 to 40 years ago there was no concept of intensive care and the vast majority of patients who now undergo intensive care would not have survived, or would have been unable to have other life saving procedures that require intensive care. These lives are being saved both by intensive care technology and by the improving standards of the practice in intensive care medicine.

Support Intensive Care Research...

The Intensive Care Appeal is a major community fundraising effort, aimed at increasing intensive care survival rates by raising funds to support vital medical research into four key areas - lung injury, traumatic brain injury, infection and prevention. The ultimate goal is to increase our already-excellent record of 85% survival by an extra 3000 patients a year. That's like saving the combined road toll of Australia and New Zealand. But research and practice improvement will help us do even better.

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units have produced excellent internationally recognised research, which has demonstrated the quality of ICU practice and the skills of those producing the research.

Serious intensive care research can only be conducted with the participation of a large number of closely acting intensive care units and with adequate financial support. We have the former and the Foundation will achieve the latter with help from your donations.

If donating by phone:

For Australian Appeal Ph: 1300 650 254 and for NZ Appeal Ph: 0900 707 707. For New Zealand callers only - calls cost $20 with the amount automatically deducted from the account holder's telephone bill.

• Give a one-off donation online
• Give a regular donation online
• Donate by phone
To donate by phone, call 03 9340 3447. Please have your credit card details on hand when you call.
• Donate by mail
To donate by mail, please download a printable donation form and send through the post to:
Level 2
10 IEVERS TERRACE
CARLTON VIC 3053
• Donate by fax
To donate by fax, please download a printable donation form and fax to 03 9340 3499.
• Leave a bequest
To leave a bequest in your will, please read the wills and bequests page for Intensive Care Foundation.