INTENSIVE CARE

Services Provided within Intensive Care

Elective and Acute admissions from within CDHB and transfers from other DHB's

Cardiothoracic services

Cardiothoracic Intensive Care has 6 beds one of these beds has isolation facilities. It is geographically separated from the general ICU but is located on the same floor.

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Speciality focus on spinal care to Burwood Hospital

Management of acute cervical spine and complicated thoracicolumbar spinal injury patients prior to their transfer to the spinal injuries unit at Burwood Hospital.

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Generalised Intensive Care

General Intensive Care for both adult and paediatric populations. Requiring full ventilator support.

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Intensive Care Outreach and Follow Up Services (ICOAF)

Intensive Care patients transferred to the wards in the previous 24 hours are followed up in the ward by an intensive care registrar and clinical nurse coordinator. This is to provide ongoing support and advice on the management of patients. The patients are seen on an ongoing basis for as long as is considered necessary.

The Intensive Care registrar or clinical nurse coordinator may also be contacted at any time by ward staff who are concerned about the clinical state of any patient in the ward.  Intensive Care encourages early contact between ward staff and intensive care to provide support, and in some cases, avoid the need for transfer to Intensive Care.

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Bereavement Follow Up Service

This is a nurse led service that operates out of the Department of Intensive Care. A card is sent to the next of kin following a death within the Department of Intensive Care conveying our condolences to the family. Six weeks later a telephone call will also be made to the next of kin which may explore understanding of the process that occurred within the Department of Intensive Care stay.

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