OzEMedicine - Wiki for Australian Emergency Medicine Doctors

see also:

• ED life hacks
• Western Health page on this wiki including links to specialty services
• Western Health cardiology services
• Western Health radiology services including ultrasound
• Western Health Pathology Services - Dorevitch
• Western Health ED nursing education resource page
• Western Health ED medical education and registrar training resource page
• Western Health ED medical student education resource page
• Western Health Director of Emergency Medicine Training (DEMT) resource page
• Western Health Enhanced Crisis Assessment Treatment Team (ECATT)
• Western Health ED care coordinators resource page
• Western Health Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research (JECEMR)

• main index page
• Western Health ED tips for common presentations
• clinical procedures
• trauma
• toxinology - snake and spider bites, etc
• toxicology links and Mx of overdoses and poisonings
  • paracetamol overdose
  • Mx of psychostimulant ice/speed/ectasy toxicity incl. sedation protocols
• paediatric clinical guidelines and links to RCH website
• neonatal guidelines and the Victorian Neonatal Handbook topics
• the lactating patient in ED
• left at own risk / absconding patient / missing patient / competence

• general anticoagulation guidelines including Mx of high INR on warfarin
• Mx of DVT
• investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism
• hypokalaemia
• hyperkalaemia
• diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
• Western Health early pregnancy assessment service (EPAS) referral process

• ED overcrowding and access block resources
• hospital policies on medico-legal issues
• common emergency department patient presentations

• ophthamologists:
  • see also: ophthalmology services for Western Health
  • Vision Eye Institute in Footscray
    • referral form: https://visioneyeinstitute.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Footscray-VIC_interactive-referral-form_2022-08-12.pdf
    • 89 Paisley St, Footscray
    • All patients require a referral letter with the patient’s bradma sticker and a provider number, and the patient will be billed
    • ph: 9689 9233 fax: 9689 9718
    • NB. merged with Western Eye Clinic mid 2023
  • Dr Thanh Nguyen
    • 204 Furlong Rd, St Albans ph: 9975 8767 fax 9382 6037
    • Fridays only
  • Public patients requiring ophthalmology who do not wish to be billed can be referred to either:
    • Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
    • Royal Melbourne Hospital
    • Royal Children’s Hospital for paediatric referrals.
• Dermatologists:
  • Eleanor St dermatology clinic (Drs Anne Howard, John Su, Josie Yeatman, Mei Tam):
    • 16 Eleanor Street, Footscray. tel: 93173344.
  • Dr Bruce Tate:
    • 198 Furlong Rd, Sunshine ph: 93560411
  • Dr Belinda Welsh Sunbury
• Gynaecology oncologist:
  • Sunshine Hospital now has a gynae oncology service via outpatients
  • alternatively, can refer to Mr Rome
    • Suite 115, 1st floor Epworth Freemasons Day Centre, 320 Victoria Pde, E. Melbourne
    • ph: 9418 8128 fax 9418 8130
  • patients with suspicious ovarian masses, consider taking blood for FBE, U&E, LFT, CA-125, CA 19.9, HCG as tumour markers
    • see the patient with an adnexal mass