Primary Options for Acute Care

Details

Name :

Primary Options for Acute Care

Address  :

PO Box 38 248, Howick

Town  :

Auckland

State  :

Auckland

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

2145

Phone  :

09 535 7218

Fax  :

09 535 7154

Web URL  :


Description

POAC is a service allowing doctors to access investigations care or treatment for their patient as an alternative to an acute hospital admission

This is a solution offered by Primary Care to assist in managing the acute demand for hospital beds in the Auckland Counties Manukau and Waitemata District Health Board regions
Milestone for hospital ICU team

Clinicians at Hawkes Bay Hospitals Intensive Care Unit ICU are among the first in the country to have eliminated hospitalacquired intensive care bloodstream infections in their patients for a year Intensive Care specialist Ross Freebairn said a year without a patient having a bloodstream infection associated with a catheter in a large vein was a... Read More

Four days without a heartbeatbut patient fine before operation

CHENNAI It has been four days since the heart of a 56dayold man stopped beating Relatives took him to a city hospital but over 96 hours later and without his heart being revived his condition is stable as he waits for doctors to operate on him A small machine has taken over the functions of the patients heart and lungs The machine cleanses his ... Read More