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Waikato Hospital is the 700 bed
tertiary referral hospital and trauma centre of the midland region of New
Zealand and serves a population area of 800 000. Waikato hospital has
specialist services in most fields apart from transplants paediatric cardiac
surgery. A neurosurgical service has recently been established. The
Waikato Intensive Care Unit is a 15 bed unit and admits over 1200 patients a year.
The Waikato Intensive care unit is a mixed unit with 15% paediatric and
85% adult admissions. Approximately 30% of the admissions are post cardiac
surgical. The remainder are a mixture of trauma, medical and surgical
patients. 76% of admissions are ventilated. Our average APACHE II score is
16 and we have a mortality rate of about 9%.
The intensive care consultant staff also assist in the management of
patients in the High Dependency Unit which has 12 beds and admits over
1800 cases per year. The intensive care provides medical and nursing
transport teams for inter-hospital transfers and oversees parenteral
nutrition within the hospital and home parenteral nutrition for the
Waikato and Midland communities. Staff also participate in trauma and
cardiac arrest rosters
The Waikato Intensive Unit has C24 classification from the Joint Faculty
of Intensive Care of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
and as such is recognised for unlimited core intensive care specialist
training.
The Intensive Care unit medical staff consists of 5 consultants (4.1 FTE),
one senior registrar and ten registrars. We have a nursing staff of
about 66.5 full time equivalents for ICU, 25 for HDU and 3 full time
respiratory technicians.
The unit has an active research and teaching programs. We have a number of
safety and quality initiatives in place
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