New Royal Adelaide Hospital
The Royal Adelaide Hospital has two clinical trial facilities:
Level 4 of the Royal Adelaide Hospital houses a 12-bed high acuity clinical trials unit with the capacity to undertake commercial and investigator-initiated trials in healthy volunteers and patients. It has extensive infrastructure and equipment, and has the capacity to deliver a level of care up to and including that of a tertiary intensive care unit.
The unit’s monitoring and diagnostic capacity includes ECG monitoring, continuous invasive and non-invasive blood pressure measurement, electroencephalography, and echocardiography. In addition, it has access to most speciality procedural and diagnostic services within the RAH.
It has the capacity for in-house sample processing, with centrifuges and monitored freezers down to -80 degrees.
Unit staff includes doctors, nurses, clinical trial coordinators and allied health professionals with extensive experience in conducting clinical trials. Furthermore the Unit has access to doctors and nurses from most adult, maternal and paediatric specialties, as well as the diagnostic, laboratory and imaging services of a major tertiary centre.
The Unit has conducted numerous clinical trials on medicines and medical devices over the last 10 years for numerous areas of medicine, such as anaesthesia, pain medicine, surgery, perioperative medicine, cancer, gynaecology, paediatrics, endocrinology, neurosurgery, spinal surgery, cardiology, intensive care, gastroenterology, and neurology.
It conducts first-in-human and Phase 1 clinical trials, but also participates in and/or manages later phase and multi-centre trials.Other services include trial design, trial monitoring, data management, recruitment and trial conduct.
Enquiries
Contact: Clinical Research Manager
Health.CALHNClinicalTrials@sa.gov.au
T: +61 (08) 7074 1544
The Royal Adelaide Hospital Clinical Trials Centre is located on Level 3 with entry from North Terrace. The design of this centre is similar to an outpatient clinic and is suitable for commercial and investigator-initiated trials in healthy volunteers and patients. This facility has all routine patient assessment and monitoring equipment including ECG and physiological monitor. The centre has 9 clinic rooms and an interview room which are sound proof to ensure patient privacy, densitometer, phlebotomy area, patient observation area with nurses station and kitchenette, wheelchair-accessible toilet, and sample processing room with a biosafety cabinet, centrifuges, monitored -20oC freezer, ultracold freezer and fridge.
This is a shared-use facility available for use by clinical researchers across the Adelaide Biomedical City Precinct.
Enquiries
Contact: CALHN Research Office
Health.CALHNClinicalTrials@sa.gov.au
T: (0)8 71172231
