Wollongong Hospital
Wollongong Hospital
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Address
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| Wollongong Hospital Crown Street Wollongong NSW 2500 |
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Telephone
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| (02) 42225000 |
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Type of Unit
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| ICU / HDU |
Unit Services
The Intensive care unit at Wollongong is an eighteen (18) bed General Adult Intensive Care Unit providing ventilatory support [both invasive and non invasive]; cardiovascular support and monitoring, and renal support [including dialysis] for adult patients.
Surgical & non-surgical, neurosurgical, trauma, cardiac and specialised and general medical diseases are just some of the conditions treated. Patients in the unit can be placed on monitors that show us their heart rate and their blood pressure. We also have machines (called ventilators) that can assist the patient in their breathing. Not all patients who come to our unit need a ventilator to help them breathe.
If the patient does not improve or needs the support of other specialised equipment such as dialysis (kidney machine), the patient can be given dialysis within the Intensive Care.
Patients that require other specialised care – e.g. burns, spinal or heart (cardiac) surgery will not come to our unit at all but will be transferred as soon as possible to a specialised intensive care unit at another hospital.Children (16 years or younger) who need intensive care services may be transferred to a specialised intensive care unit at another hospital.
Unit Staff
Four (4) Intensive Care Staff Specialists, who have trained in intensive care medicine, lead our unit. One is present in the unit daily. When not in the unit they can be reached by telephone. We also have eight (8) less senior doctors [Registrars] who cover the unit 24 hours per day, seven (7) days a week.
There is a senior nurse in charge of the unit every shift. If a patient needs help with their breathing (on a ventilator), or other Intensive Care, one nurse will look after that patient @ all times.
If a patient can breathe without the help of a ventilator, one nurse may be taking care of two (2) patients during the shift.Our unit also has the help of Allied Health Professionals such as a physiotherapist, pharmacist, dietician and social worker through the day.
How To Get To Wollongong Hospital
State Rail - western line to Westmead Station
5 min walk from Westmead Station.
5 mins by car from Parramatta
A map of the hospitals's location is below. A more detailed map can be found at the Whereis Online WebSite.
