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About LBH ICU

LBH.ICU@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a five bed facility, located adjacent to a five bed Coronary Care Unit. The unit is able to provide a broad range of critical care modalities, including physiological monitoring, artificial ventilation and renal dialysis.

ICU is staffed by a Medical Director (or designated ICU specialist), a resident medical officer, a Nursing Unit Manager and registered nurses, qualified and/or experienced in Critical Care Nursing.

Patients are admitted to the ICU as referrals from the Emergency Department, from other wards, or as booked admissions post-operatively. Referrals also arise from other hospitals in the Richmond District.

In addition the ICU provides the following services:-

consultation on critical care issues
intravenous nutrition service
insertion of central venous catheters
education of other staff members

June 1995

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