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Pindara Private Hospital Magazine - Issue One

newsSUMMER/AUTUMN The Mansell Cosy Cot was officially presented to representatives from Pindara at the Rotary Antiques, Collectable and Book Fair on Sunday 12 January 2014. Antiques and Collectables Help the Brand New The Rotary Club of Palm Beach has raised more than $30,000 to purchase a Mansell Cosy Pod Transport Cot for Pindara Private Hospital’s Maternity Unit. The cot will be used to transport very sick babies from Pindara to a tertiary centre such as the Gold Coast University Hospital or to Brisbane to receive tertiary level care. Funds to purchase the cot were raised through the annual Rotary Antiques, Collectable and Book Fair held from 9 – 12 January 2014 at Jupiters Casino. The fair attracted more than 70 antique, collectable and book dealers from across the country and their old and valuable wares turned the Jupiters Ballroom into an eclectic antique bazaar. Fair organiser Peter Campbell said thousands of people of all ages attended the fair and while he wasn’t sure of final attendance numbers he believed the 2014 fair attracted many more attendees than previous years. The Rotary Club of Palm Beach was established in 1967 and has run the antiques fair for more than 25 years. Collectively, the fairs have raised more than $1 million. These funds have been used to support local community projects as well as international projects. This year Pindara Private Hospital was the recipient. Denise Hartley, Pindara Private Hospital Assistant Director of Clinical Services (Obstetric, Paediatric, Neurosurgical & Intensive Care Services) said the CosyPod Neonatal Transport System, purchased by the Palm Beach Rotary Club was a valuable addition to the resources in her unit. She said the new equipment will provide a service that the Gold Coast health community, as a whole will welcome. The Cosypod Neonatal Transport System fits into all new ambulances and is fully tested for road use compliance. Denise said the system has a power lifter making for easy handling and manoeuvrability. Pindara Private Hospital’s maternity unit is the busiest private unit on the Gold Coast with more than 1,500 babies born each year. The hospital thanks the Rotary Club of Palm Beach for their outstanding support. Pindara Cardiac and Emergency Centre Accidents happen – anywhere and anytime – and when they do, Gold Coast residents and holiday makers are in safe hands, thanks to the dedicated team of experienced emergency doctors and nurses who run the 24-hour Pindara Cardiac and Emergency service. First opened in 1987, the Pindara Emergency Centre was the first private emergency centre in the country. Since then, it has grown to be one of the busiest private 24-hour emergency centres on the Gold Coast, with more than 22,000 emergencies treated per annum. The Emergency Centre is run by a team of long-serving doctors and highly trained emergency nurses. They provide around-theclock, diagnostic and treatment services all day, every day. Patients are able to self-present or they can be referred by their GP or other medical specialist. Each patient is triaged by an experienced registered nurse on arrival to ensure care is timely and given in order of clinical urgency. Patients are then assessed by an experienced Emergency Centre doctor, who will consult with a relevant specialist if required. The centre’s doctors network closely with local general practitioners and specialists to ensure follow-up care is provided where necessary. The Pindara Cardiac and Emergency Centre is well-equipped with life-saving technology, and is supported by 24-hour onsite pathology services and radiology with X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan and nuclear medicine imaging, as well as Pindara Private Hospital’s state-of-the-art operating theatres, intensive care and coronary care units with cardiac catheter laboratory. Pindara Cardiac and Emergency Centre is a leading provider of comprehensive and personalised private emergency services on the Gold Coast. World Class Cardiac Services Arrive at Pindara Private Hospital New and improved cardiac services have arrived at Pindara Private Hospital with the recent commissioning of a state-of-the-art, Cardiac Catheter Laboratory (Cath Lab) and a new Electrophysiology (EP) Unit. EP is a branch of cardiology that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders. The cutting-edge Alura Cath Lab boasts new technology and is one of the first installations of its type in Australia for Philips Healthcare. Superior features unique to this new Alura system include higher quality (clearer) x-ray imaging that also delivers lower doses of radiation, to both staff and patients, than older equivalents. Real time monitoring of the radiation levels in the laboratory is another key feature of the new equipment. The EP cockpit brings several other firsts for Pindara – the hospital is the first in Queensland to commission a complete St Jude installation, and part of it - the Claris monitoring system - is a new release for the company and the installation at Pindara will be the first of its type in Australia. The cutting-edge EP equipment captures, displays, stores and retrieves surface and intracardiac electrical signals during electrophysiology studies. The system is connected to electrophysiology catheters that are guided into various locations within the heart and to surface electrocardiogram (EGC) cables. The equipment identifies abnormal heartbeats and the areas in the heart that cause cardiac arrhythmias (disturbances in the normal rhythm of the heartbeat). Pindara Magazine 10 Summer - Autumn | 2014


Pindara Private Hospital Magazine - Issue One
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