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The Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) is available 24 hours a day to provide emergency advice and interhospital transfer for sick infants, children and high-risk pregnant women of 16 or more weeks gestation in Victorian health services. For critically ill infants and children a PIPER retrieval team is mobilised to provide emergency stabilisation and transfer to the Royal Children's Hospital, Monash Children's Hospital, Royal Women's Hospital, Mercy Hospital for Women, Joan Kirner (Sunshine) as well as selected non-tertiary centres as appropriate.
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All emergency calls are recorded for quality and education purposes.
To provide excellence in retrieval services and clinical care for babies, children and pregnant women.