Renal Services
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Contact Hours:
| 9.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (24 hour on-call service) | |
Address:
| Rotary House, 325 Ryrie Street, Geelong | |
Car Parking:
| At rear of Rotary House - permits available for patients from reception | |
Telephone:
| 03 5226 7499 | |
Fax:
| 03 5221 7921 |
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| Service Description: | Renal Services provides inpatient care for all patients of Barwon Health (regional population 450,000) with primary or secondary renal disease, electrolyte disorders, hypertension, CKD2-5, dialysis and transplant-related problems. Also outpatient training, support and home maintenance for our 'flagship' nocturnal home haemodialysis.
Barwon Health Renal Services provides the following:
- Inpatient care for all patients of Barwon Health (regional population ~450,000) with primary or secondary renal disease, electrolyte disorders, hypertension, CKD2-5, dialysis and transplant-related problems.
- Inpatient and outpatient in-centre haemodialysis services.
- (8 HD stations)
- Inpatient peritoneal dialysis including management of Tenckhoff catheters, peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis and PD complications of Continuous Ambulatory and Automated Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD and APD).
- Management of surgically created dialysis vascular access.
- Management (with ICU) of temporary and permanent IJ venous catheter access (cuffed and uncuffed catheters) including urokinase de-clotting, re-insertion etc.
- Inpatient and outpatient management of renal biopsy.
- Inpatient management (with ICU) of acute renal failure with continuous veno-venous haemodiafiltration (CVVHD) +/- slow low-efficiency dialysis (SLED).
- Outpatient satellite (full, limited and self-care) haemodialysis at South Geelong Dialysis Unit (SGDU).
- (16 HD stations)
- Outpatient satellite haemodialysis at Newcomb Satellite Dialysis Unit (SGDU).
- (6 HD stations)
- Outpatient training, support and home care for CAPD and APD at the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit (PDU) at SGDU.
- Outpatient training, support and home maintenance for our ‘flagship’ nocturnal home haemodialysis.
- Outpatient support and supervision of 5 regional satellite haemodialysis facilities at Colac and Lorne (each with 3 HD stations).
- Inpatient and outpatient care of renal transplantation.
- Shared care with Barwon Health Medical Imaging for U/S and angiography, transluminal angioplasty and stent insertion to renovascular and AV fistula lesions.
- Shared care with St Vincent’s Transplant Service for renal transplantation (transplant patients permanently return Day 7).
- Shared care with Monash Medical Centre Transplant Unit for care of simultaneous pancreatic and kidney (SPK) transplantation.
- Australian contributory unit to the international DOPPS II and DOPPS III studies on dialysis outcomes and practice profiles.
- Contributory unit to ANZDATA
| | Other Referral Options: | Visit www.nocturnaldialysis.org for more information. | | Date Updated: | 5/12/2008 |
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