Paediatric Intensive Care, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Contact
Phone: (02) 7825 1171
Location: Intensive Care Unit, Ward Street, Level 3
About our service
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 24-bed unit providing intensive services to infants, children and adolescents from NSW, South Australia and New Caledonia.
We are a designated paediatric trauma centre and the NSW state referral unit for paediatric burns.
The service is nationally-funded to perform paediatric liver transplants and the Norwood procedure, a staged surgical palliation for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
The PICU provides:
- specialist care for seriously ill, injured or ventilated infants and children
- specialist care post-surgery including cardiac, neurosurgery, liver and renal transplantation
- specialist care for high dependency patients requiring non-invasive ventilation
- extra-corporeal life support (ECLS)
- outreach Service for review of ward-based patients following discharge from PICU, and any patient experiencing clinical deterioration when PICU assistance is requested.
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) provides supportive care to 1400 infants, children and adolescents each year.
Patients come to us with the entire spectrum of critical care problems. We manage all critical illnesses, including mechanical ventilation, mechanical support of the circulation, and support of organ systems.
