Intensive Care Services

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is dedicated to caring for patients with life-threatening illnesses and complications, and for monitoring potentially life-threatening conditions. It provides special expertise and facilities for the support of vital functions, using the skills of medical, nursing and allied teams.

The Unit offers a full range of intensive care services to all patients, including:

• invasive monitoring
• mechanical ventilation support
• renal replacement therapy (dialysis)
• advanced cardio-vascular support
• point-of-care coagulation testing
• procedural services
• tracheostomy insertion and management.

The ICU is able to support all medical and surgical services delivered within the hospital with a full range of intensive care equipment and the latest monitoring and ventilation systems.

The Hospital's Clinical Emergency Response teams (CERs) are also provided by Intensive Care services. CERs is a consultant-led emergency response and outreach service which supplies intensive care support to the wider Hospital community.

The experienced Intensive Care team have a broad range of interests - such as echocardiography, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, transplant medicine and retrieval medicine - and undertake weekly multi-disciplinary education sessions to ensure an advanced skill set.

Our Intensive Care specialists are:

• Dr Matthew Zoeller
• Dr Fiona Shields
• Dr Máté Rudas
• Davide Collins
• Dr Maziar Razavian
• Dr Matthew Phillips
• Dr Matthew Morgan

The ICU can be contacted via the Hospital switchboard on 9105 5000.