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(5) The basic guideline is that Emergency patients have priority over elective admissions.
(6) All listed specialists are available at Woden Valley Hospital. Some specialists will not be represented at both hospitals as the resources which make them a functional unit, eg Registrars, Clinical Nurse Specialists and operating equipment would be under utilised or duplicated. A Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, for example, would not be expected to be duplicated and it would be most appropriate to transfer patients requiring this service to Woden Valley Hospital.
The following specialists are on call to Calvary Hospital:
Cardiologist, Thoracic Specialist, Psychiatrist, Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Urologist, Maxillofacial Surgeons, Ophthalmologist and Radiologist. Calvary Hospital also has general surgeons and physicians who are specialists.
At all times and in all circumstances specialists are called out if available and if needed, with regard to the best use of available resources.
(7) When the Emergency Doctor and/or the Attending Medical
Officer decides that the patient would be better managed at Woden
Valley Hospital. Transfers could possibly occur if
Calvary Hospital was at capacity and Woden Valley Hospital had
available beds.
(8) The majority of transfers from Calvary Hospital involve Trauma (usually Orthopaedics) and Paediatrics. These decisions are made in consultation between the doctors at Calvary Hospital and Woden Valley Hospital.
(9) Woden Valley Hospital is the designated Trauma Centre for the region. The availability of paramedics means that as in most metropolitan centres, major Trauma is taken directly to the designated Trauma Centre by the paramedics.
Paediatric cases may be taken directly to Woden Valley Hospital if simply requiring admission; however, if seriously ill patients may be taken to Calvary Hospital in the first instance for emergency care and resuscitation.
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