Williamstown

Campus Details

Staff

Onshelf Equipment

Suitable Trauma

Clavicles – acute distal lateral fractures only (avoid any fracture with potential vascular issues, ie callus formation, difficult fractures, medial clavicular fractures)

  • General
    • Small rehab hospital (2 rehab wards), surgical ward, theatre complex and basic ED
    • Only operates on and admits patients >16yrs
    • All ED and rehab/GEM referrals go through to Sunshine registrar on call
    • Williamstown registrar needs to do NWB round every Tuesday morning prior to fracture clinic
      • Generally meet physio on lower GEM ward with your resident, go through referrals from week for rehab/GEM patients that need WB or ROM status updates based on new XRs
      • Resident writes plans on system
      • Takes about 15-20 minutes, generally do at 7:30am
  • Ortho Wards
    • Lower west ward
      • Centre of hospital (turn right after passing security at main entrance)
      • Approx 20 bed ward
      • Phone: 9393 0179
    • Rehab wards are upper west (level 1, above lower west) and lower GEM (down corridor from lower west)
      • Where most post-op rehab patients from Footscray/Williamstown acute go

Ward Rounds

    • Done by Williamstown registrars + resident (usually 1 unacc + 1 acc)
    • Often just done by unaccredited if senior enough
    • Time varies based on where registrar needs to be afterwards (clinic vs theatre), but often around 7:30am for Mon-Thurs
    • Fri usually 6am round to then drive to Footscray for 7am audit meeting
  • Theatre
    • Ground floor, access by walking through lower west ward
    • 4 theatres
    • Usually 2-3 ortho theatres running at any one time
    • Almost exclusively elective operating, but some trauma if too busy at all other campuses
    • Most scrub nurses are ortho trained and very good for elective stuff
    • NIC phone: 9393 0350
    • Loans gear adjacent to main corridor next to admissions area
    • Two I.I. machines available
  • ED
    • Basic, small ED
    • Only open til 11pm then any patients left there are transferred to Footscray ED if required
    • No ability to reduce fractures ?? pts sent to Footscray ED
    • Experience level generally lower than Footscray/Sunshine so be careful
  • Radiology
    • Adjacent to theatre
    • Does XR/CT/USS (in hours for USS only)
    • Can’t do long leg alignment views