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Paediatric Intensive Care

Phone: 9845 1995
Fax: 9845 1993
Location: level 3

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 17-bed unit providing supportive care to approximately 1000-1100 infants and children each year. This support may include mechanical ventilation, extra-corporeal life support (ECLS), renal replacement therapy (RRT), as well as high-level invasive and non-invasive monitoring.  Patients may be admitted following surgery (including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, liver or renal transplant, etc.) or with a range of other conditions such as trauma, burns or severe medical conditions. See also: Intensive Care
Last updated: Wednesday the 13th of December, 2006

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