Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
RCH > Quality, Emergency, Critical Care > Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Staff
- Director of Intensive Care- RCH
- Unit Manager Nursing
- Specialists in Intensive Care
- PICU Research Coordinator
- PICU Project Coordinator (Data)
- ECLS Coordinator - Medical
- ECLS Coordinator - Nursing
- PETS Coordinator - Medical
- PETS Coordinator - Nursing
- Clinical Nurse Educators
- Clinical Nurse Facilitators
- PICU Liaison Nurses
- Technologists for intensive care
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is managed by the Unit Medical Director, Dr. Lara Shekerdemian, and the Unit Manager Nursing, Suzanne Hall.
The care of each PICU patient is managed by the PICU consultant on duty, together with a team of PICU registrars, and by a non-PICU medical team consisting of a consultant, registrar and resident (eg. Cardiology, Cardiac surgery or Oncology). Other specialist services may also be consulted about the child's care.
There are 7 PICU Consultants in Intensive Care, of whom one is on duty during the day for one week and another on call at night. The day-to-day medical care is provided by a number of senior registrars based in the PICU. The PICU registrars are senior doctors with advanced training in intensive care, paediatrics, anaesthesia or emergency medicine. The RCH PICU is accredited for 2 years advanced training in intensive care by the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (RACP and ANZCA)
The unit has more than 90 nursing staff of which most have a post registration qualification in paediatric intensive care, or are working towards it. In addition to the nurse unit manager there are 10 associate nurse unit managers, a number of clinical nurse specialists and registered nurses. Two clinical nurse educators and two clinical nurse facilitators are based in the unit to support nursing staff at the bedside and co-ordinate several courses in the unit, for both staff within PICU and those from outside the area or hospital new to PICU.
AThe PICU is the national paediatric ECLS (Extra Corporeal Life Support) centre. The ECLS nurse co-ordinator's role is to support and educate staff as well as rco-ordinate a yearly ECLS course and the data/research collection on all ECLS cases cared for within PICU.
PICU Liaison nurses work with all unit and hospital staff to optimise the process of admission and discharge to and from PICU. Their role is to provide support and follow-up for all discharged patients and education and support to ward nursing staff accepting patients from the PICU. This role aims to decrease re-admission rates by enhancing patient care delivery on the wards.
There are four Intensive Care Technologists, who provide a support service in the form of supplying, maintaining and repairing specialist equipment, support to the unit 24 hours a day. They also offer assistance with provision of complex therapies such as ECLS, Filtration and Specialist ventilation needs and research. The PICU Technologists supervise the purchase and maintence of equipment for patients who require home respiratory support, on behalf of the RCH Home and Community Care service. They undertake research projects and teaching of hospital staff and homecare carers
Other support staff include ward clerks and patient service assistants.
A multidisciplinary team provides support services to the children and their families. The team includes social workers, pharmacy, play therapy, music therapy, chaplains, psychology team, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
Director of Intensive Care Nurse Unit Manager
Dr Lara Shekerdemian Suzanne Hall
MB, ChB, MRCP [UK], MD, FRACP, FIJFICM Telephone: +61 3 9345 5201
e-mail: lara.shekerdemian@rch.org.au e-mail: suzanne.hall@rch.org.au
Specialists in Intensive Care
Professor Frank Shann
MB, BS, FRACP, MD, FJFICM
e-mail: frank.shann@rch.org.au
Assoc Prof James Tibballs
MB, BS, B Med Sc [HONS], MEd, MBA, MD, FANZCA, FJFICM, FACTM
e-mail: james.tibballs@rch.org.auDr Robert Henning
MB, BS, FRCA, FANZCA, FJFICM
e-mail: robert.henning@rch.org.auDr Warwick Butt
MB, BS, FRACP, FJFICM
e-mail: warwick.butt@rch.org.auAssoc Prof. Mike South
MB, BS, DCH, MRCP [UK], FRACP, MD, FJFICM
Director, Department of General Medicine
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
e-mail: mike.south@rch.org.auDr Johnny Millar
MB, ChB, PhD, MRCP, FRACP, FJFICM
e-mail: johnny.millar@rch.org.auDr Trevor Duke
MB, BS, FRACP, FJFICM
e-mail: trevor.duke@rch.org.au
PICU Data Quality and Audit Team Leader
Carmel Delzoppo
Telephone: +61 3 9345 4766
e-mail: carmel.delzoppo@rch.org.auPICU Research Coordinator
Carmel Delzoppo
Telephone: +61 3 9345 4766
e-mail: carmel.delzoppo@rch.org.au
ECLS Coordinator - Medical
Dr. Warwick Butt
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5224
e-mail: warwick.butt@rch.org.au
ECLS Coordinators - Nursing
Derek Best
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5349
e-mail: derek.best@rch.org.auMelissa Membrey
email: mel.membrey@rch.org.au
PETS Coordinator - Medical
Dr Rob Henning
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5211 (Page 5216)
e-mail: robert.henning@rch.org.au
PETS Coordinator - Nursing
Alison Fleming
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5349 (Page 7118)
e-mail: alison.fleming@rch.org.au
Clinical Nurse Educators
Dianne McKinley, Janine Evans, Simon Hull
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5211
Email: icu.education@rch.org.au
Clinical Nurse Facilitators
Gabrielle Carroll, Vanessa Long, Karen Moran, Jodie Cashill, Sheila Embleton
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5211
Email: icu.education@rch.org.au
PICU Liaison Nurses
Chelsea Caffin, Juliet Pellegrini, Sopie Linton, David Venables & Rebecca Tracey (7 days a week - job share)
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5211(Page: 5252)
email: icu.liaison@rch.org.au chelsea.caffin@rch.org.au juliet.pellegrini@rch.org.au sophie.linton@rch.org.au hollie.mccaig@rch.org.au
Technologists for Intensive Care
Telephone: +61 3 9345 5218 (Page: 5218)
e-mail: icutech@rch.org.auMark Hochmann
M. App Sc
Senior TechnologistBradley Carter
M. App Sc, PhDAnthony Osborne
Rosemary Stephens
B. App Sc