Canterbury Hospital

Canterbury Hospital

Unit Services

Here at Canterbury Hospital we have an Intensive Care Unit (the Grevillea Unit) which has twelve (12) centrally monitored beds. Patients in the unit can be placed on cardiac monitors that show us their heart rate and their blood pressure. Eight (8) Telemetry units allow ambulant patients to have continuous heart monitoring. We also have machines (called ventilators) that can assist the patient with their breathing.
Not all patients who come to our unit will require a ventilator to help them breathe. Other devices to assist with breathing are also available.
The Grevillea Unit is designated as a Level 4 Intensive Care Unit able to provide continuous invasive and / or non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring for all twelve (12) patients. The unit is also capable of acute short-term ventilatory support (up to 24 hours duration) until the patient is transferred out to a tertiary facility for ongoing long-term management.
Our services cater for patients who require acute cardiac (non-surgical) care, post operative High Dependency care as well as acute high dependency medical care for conditions such as respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilatory support.
After admission, if the patient does not improve or requires specialised care – e.g. burns, major trauma, brain (neuro) surgery or heart (cardiac) surgery or needs the support of other specialised equipment such as dialysis (kidney machine), they will need to be transferred to another intensive care unit that provides these specialised services. These services are normally accessed elsewhere within the Sydney South West Area Health Service; though the majority of transfers are predominantly sent to RPA or Concord Hospitals.
Children (16 years or younger) who need intensive care services will be transferred immediately to a specialised intensive care unit at one of the children’s hospitals.

Unit Staff
The Grevillea Unit has an extensive network of dedicated nursing and medical staff who work in multidisciplinary teams to support patients. A senior Registered Nurse is in charge of each shift. The staff also includes those nursing staff who are gaining experience and qualifications in Intensive Care Nursing / High Dependency Nursing and New Graduate nurses who rotate through the Unit during their training. The education and training of all nursing staff is supported with the assistance of our full-time Clinical Nurse Educator.
A comprehensive health care team, including Social Work, Physiotherapist, Pharmacist, Speech Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, Diabetes Consultant, Infectious Diseases Respiratory consultant, and Stomal Therapy consultant, are available to assist with the management of patients and offer guidance and support to families/carers.

Other Hospital Services

The Grevillea Unit also provides senior nursing staff support to the Medical Emergency Team (MET), which operates throughout the hospital campus 24 hours a day.

How To Get To Canterbury Hospital

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