The North Shore Hospital Intensive Care Unit & High Dependency Unit provide intensive and high dependency care for adult patients (over 15 years)
Excludes
- Heart, lung & blood vessel surgery
- provided by Auckland City Hospital (ICU patients then stay in Cardiothoracic & Vascular ICU)
- Brain surgery, liver/kidney/pancreas transplantation, complex major trauma and some types of liver failure management
- provided by Auckland City Hospital (ICU patients then stay in the Department of Critical Care Medicine)
- Burn management
- provided by Middlemore Hospital (ICU patients then stay in Middlemore Hospital ICU)
Intensive Care Team
- The North Shore Hospital combined ICU/HDU admits patients to the Intensive Care Team
- Intensive care patients have one-to-one nursing
- High dependency patients need more specialised medical and nursing care and may be nursed in a two-to-one ratio
Locations