Equipment Purchased
Funds raised from each of the Auxiliaries goes towards much needed extra equipment for the Women’s & Children’s Hospital.
Equipment purchased by Friends for the Women’s & Children’s Hospital (WCH) is done in consultation with the Hospital
The consultative and decision making process for deciding what types of equipment are needed each year is done between Friends and the various hospital departments. Fundraising goals are established if there are some specific larger items that are needed.
Below are some examples of the types of important equipment that Friends have been able to purchase for the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Neonatal Transport System
Last year the Friends funded an “Omnibed” hybrid incubator that has proven to be a huge success in the support of premature babies. There is a transport system available to link in with this incubator that facilitates transport to other areas within the hospital like theatres and medical imaging.
Unit price: $30,000 each × 1 pc
Ventilator
This is a new style of ventilator that uses a unique approach to ventilation, being triggered by the patient’s own natural breathing response. It significantly reduces the number of babies that need an invasive breathing tube, enabling a simple mask to be used instead. Clinically it represents a new era of neonatal ventilation.
Unit price: $81,330.32 each × 1 pc
Clinical Audiometers
The clinical audiometers are used to measure the child’s ability to hear.
The new device includes all the advanced features and functions needed by a modern clinic with pre-programmed, user defined, or automated test sequence.
Unit price: $26,666 each × 3 pcs
Intraoperative Neuro Monitoring
Intraoperative neuromonitoring systems enable surgeons to identify, confirm and monitor motor nerve function to help reduce the risk of nerve damage during various procedures, including ear noise and throat and general surgeries.
Unit price: $40,532.53 each x 1 pc
Chondrotome consoles and hand pieces
For use in a variety of surgical procedures, including orthopaedic, dental, ENT, neuro, spine, and endoscopic applications.
Powers small and large bone drills, saws and drivers; small and large joint shavers; ENT shavers; foot pedals; bone mill and irrigation.
Cuts, drills, reams, decorticates, shapes and smoothed bone, bone cement and teeth.
Helps place or cut screws, metal, wires, pins and other fixation devices.
Unit price: $58,000 each x 1 pc
Newborn Hearing Screening ABR Devices
For use in a variety of surgical procedures, including Newborn Hearing system is a fast automated Automated Brainstem Response (ABR) hearing test for newborns to grant babies the comfort of ABR screening, with integrated electrodes and a speaker with ear cushion in a single unit.
Unit price: $12,456 each x 1 pc
Enuresis Alarm
Enuresis Alarm (bedwetting alarm) are thought to be the most useful and successful first step to treat bedwetting. Research has shown these alarms will help 80 per cent of children to become dry, and most children will then stay dry. Children using alarms in their own homes are less likely to relapse compared to children taking medication.
Cough Assist and Percussion machine
The Cough Assist and Percussion machine helps clear respiratory secretions by delivering rhythmic, mechanical vibrations to the chest, loosening mucus and aiding in its effective removal through coughing.
Shower Chair
This highly specialised Shower Chair is used for patients with significant disability and aims to ensure both safety and dignity at all times.
Transcutaneous Gas Monitor
The Transcutaneous Gas Monitor provides continuous, non-invasive monitoring of oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, enabling early detection of respiratory issues and more precise management of patient care.
Fetal Heart rate Detector and trolley
The fetal heart rate detects and measures the rate and rhythm of the fetus’s heart. The Fetal heart rate is considered a reliable indicator of fetal well-being during pregnancyPurchase of the device replaces older devices. The newer devices are compact and light weight; they have a high level sensitivity probes with advanced evaluation and noise reduction for more accurate results.
Unit price: $2,000 each x 1 pc
Oxygen Blender
The air blender is a gas mixing device that provides precise medical grade air and oxygen mixing. Oxygen therapy is provided in neonatal intensive care units to prevent and treat neonatal hypoxia.
This treatment is essential for the physiological development and survival of neonates with respiratory dysfunctions.
The additional units will allow each bed space to have easy access to the equipment for resuscitation methods.
Unit price: $3,400 each x 1 pc
Equipment Purchased with Funds Raised by the Auxiliaries Division & Shops Auxiliary Division
Neonatal Transport System
Ventilator
Clinical Audiometers
Intraoperative Neuro Monitoring
Chondrotomes Consoles and hand pieces
Newborn Hearing Screening ABR Devices
Equipment Purchased with Funds Raised by the Queen Victoria Auxiliary Division
Volumetric Infusion Pump x 2
Video Laryngoscope
Recliner Bed Sleeper
Transducer Nerve Stimulator
Comfort Upright Birth
Fetal Heart Rate Detector and Trolley
Oxygen Blender
Memory Boxes
Bereavement Hearts
Queen Victoria Auxiliary Equipment Handover 2020
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