Staff
- Organisation
- Transport staff
- PETS Coordinator
- ICU Consultants
- ICU Nursing Unit Manager
- PETS Secretary
Organisation
The Acting PETS Medical Director is Felix Oberender. Administration is by a committee consisting of the PETS Nursing Director (Clinical), PETS Medical Director (Clinical), several senior PETS nurses, a senior PICU Registrar (medical), a Clinical Technologist, and the PETS Secretary. Administrative tasks are delegated to members of this committee, which meets monthly.
Transport staff
All transfers are performed by a doctor and a PETS nurse or by a doctor and a paramedic. The doctors are PICU registrars. The registrars are all senior (>4 years training in paediatrics, intensive care, anaesthesia or emergency medicine) with extra training as needed in procedures such as airway management (i.e. tracheal intubation) and central venous cannulation. The nurses have undertaken a 1 year post-graduate specialist course in PICU nursing and training in retrieval medicine.
Senior Nurse Clinician PETS
Alison Fleming
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Phone: (03) 9345 9028
Email: alison.fleming@rch.org.au
Acting PETS Medical Director (Clinical)
Dr Felix Oberender
Staff Specialist PICU
Phone: (03) 9345 5522 Page 4192
Email: felix.oberender@rch.org.au
Dr Robert Henning
Staff Specialist PICU
Phone: (03) 9345 5224
Email: robert.henning@rch.org.au
PICU Director
Warwick Butt
Phone: (03) 9345 5224
Email: warwick.butt@rch.og.au
PICU Nursing Unit Manager
Adrian Hutchinson
Phone: (03) 9345 5201
Email: adrian.hutchinson@rch.org.au
PETS Administrator
Shradha Balia
Phone: (03) 9345 5430
Email: shradha.balia@rch.org.au
