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Intensive care and high dependency services work together to support safe and appropriate transitions for critically ill patients as they recover.
This unit is a 21 bed ICU/HDU with greater than 85% occupancy, averaging 1600 patients per year.
It is an ANZICS Level 3 unit and provides an extensive tertiary service to the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service of Queensland.
The care of critically ill patients is a co-operative venture involving the contributions of a broad range of health care professionals.
The Intensive care department provided care to patients with life threatening or potentially life threatening conditions. This service provide specialised facilities, equipment, expertise and staff acuity to support the critically ill patients, other departments and the HHS as a whole.
The GCUH Intensive care department manages a varied case mix of patients and conditions.
These include:
Patient casemix includes general medical, respiratory and post-surgical. Services include all forms of ventilation, dialysis, bronchoscopy, as well as the MET/Code blue team, cardioversion and central line/PICC line services.
The unit has a progressive and comprehensive education program for both clinical and management education, and offers secondments to areas of specialist interest.
The Robina ICU facilities include:
