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Intensive Care Unit [ICU] Whangarei Hospital |
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Whangarei Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit is a Level 2 Unit. This means
the ICU offers intensive care to a level that provides ventilation,
renal replacement therapy, and can support patients with multi-organ
failure.
ICU admits around 650 patients per year, with this number increasing
annually. The Unit cares for both adult and paediatric (children)
patients with medical, surgical and trauma diagnoses. ICY also offer
High Dependency (HDU) care to these patients.
Patients who require more complex surgery or intensive care
intervention are flown to a Level 3 Unit, usually Department of
Critical Care In Auckland and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at
Auckland.
ICU also operate a flight retrieval team from the unit. The team
retrieves critically ill patients from Northlands peripheral hospitals
and also transfers this category of patients to tertiary hospitals in
Auckland and occasionally Waikato.
Critically ill patients are admitted under the Speciality Consultant,
but the ICU Consultants direct care whilst the patient requires
intensive care. Patients admitted as HDU have shared care, with the ICU
doctors working with the speciality doctors to provide a step down
level of care.
Formal ICU rounds occur twice a day at 8.00am and 4.30pm, seven days
per week. These are run with morning and afternoon/night medical teams,
Cliinical Nurse Manager and/or shift co-ordinator and in the morning
with the
physiotherapist and dietician. There is 24 hour, 7 days a week ICU
Consultant and Registrar cover to the unit.
As with other Intensive Care Units in New Zealand the Unit offers an
organ donation service with support from the transplant co-ordinators
in Auckland.
Hours:
10.30am-2.30pm and 4.00pm-8.00pm
Maximum of two visitors per patient - including children
Other arrangements regarding visiting patients within the unit - via consultation with the Clinical Nurse Manager.
Location:
Ground Floor, Whangarei Hospital
Contact:
ICU
Whangarei Hospital
Private Bag 9742
Whangarei
Ph. 09 430 4100
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