Royal Adelaide Hospital - Intensive Care Unit

Further Enquiries:

The Secretary, ICU
Intensive Care Unit, L4
Royal Adelaide Hospital
North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
E-Mail
Phone: +61 8 8222 5649
Fax: +61 8 8223 6340

Faculty of Health Sciences
Medical School North
Ground Floor, Room NG45, Frome Road
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
Email
Phone: +61 8 8303 5336
Fax: +61 8 8303 3788

The Royal Adelaide Hospital is a 700 bed teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Adelaide, under the Faculty of Health Sciences. The hospital is located on North Terrace in the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia. The ICU forms an integral part of the University Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.

The ICU was commissioned in 1969 and has grown to a compliment of 24 ICU and 10 flexible ICU/HDU beds. These beds cater for approximately 1500 ICU and 1900 HDU admissions per annum, composed of a mixture of general medical, general surgical, cardiothoracic, trauma, spinal injury and burns cases. Routine cardiothoracic cases are managed in a separate dedicated ICU and the hospital does not routinely handle paediatric or obstetric cases.

The RAH is the major trauma referral centre for South Australia and approximately 800 retrievals per year are performed by the Mediflight retrieval service.