Intensive Care Unit

The ICU has 14 beds and an outdoor space for patients, families and carers.

Patients may require admission to the ICU for any number of reasons, including close monitoring and treatment following:

• presentation to the ED
• complex surgery, planned or emergency
• deterioration in hospital and requiring a high level of care or intervention.

The ICU's technical capabilities include:

• cardiac output monitoring
• echocardiography
• bronchoscopy
• intra-aortic balloon pump insertion
• percutaneous tracheostomy insertion
• renal replacement therapy
• temporary transvenous pacemaker insertion.

TQEH is also part of the MedStar South Australia state-wide retrieval service and regularly receives critically unwell patients from across the state.

The ICU is located on level 1 of the Kangkanthi building and is a secure access clinical area.

Consultants

• Dr John Raj – Head of Unit

The ICU is a secure access, clinical area, with different guidelines for visitors to the unit.

Patients may require admission to the ICU for any number of reasons, including monitoring and treatment following:

• trauma or presentation to the ED
• complex surgery (planned or emergency)
• deterioration in hospital and requiring a high level of care or intervention.

If you have any questions related to you, your care, or the care of a loved one, do not hesitate to contact your ICU clinical team. 

They are always on hand to support and assist you.

Visiting a critically ill loved one in the ICU can be a confronting and sometimes distressing experience.

For many, the ICU is an unfamiliar environment, with numerous machines, alarms, hospital staff, and a high volume of medical information to absorb and understand.

We do our best to prepare visitors for their time in the ICU by talking to and updating families, carers and friends as much as possible.

ICU staff are always on on hand to answer any questions regarding care, the unit or visiting patients.

Note: flowers and plants are not permitted in the ICU.

The ICU is located on level 1 Kangkanthi building and is a secure access clinical area.

To access the ICU, ring the intercom at the front door to the ICU, which will be answered by a staff member.

Once inside the unit, all visitors need to present to the ICU front desk before being directed to the patient bedside.

The ICU waiting room is a comfortable space to wait until clinical staff can update you or bring you to the patient bedside.

ICU visiting hours are daily between 11:00 am and 3:30 pm.

We request that visitors do not attend the unit during quiet time which is between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm, for the benefit of both patients and staff. 

If you need to visit outside of the hours indicated, please call and arrange an alternative time with ICU nursing staff via reception. 

Up to two visitors are allowed at the bed space at any one time, to avoid overcrowding of busy clinical areas.

We appreciate your understanding and that our visiting requirements may change, at short notice, under certain circumstances.

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