Unit profile | Teaching and training | Research | Useful links
Staff
Consultants
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Dr Johann Ahrens |
Dr Ilse Appel Tel: 021-658-5354 Email: ilse.appel@uct.ac.za |
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| Dr C Procter Tel: 021-658-5354 Email: claire.procter@uct.ac.za |
Dr A Salloo Tel: 021-658-5354 Email: asma.salloo@uct.ac.za |
Summary of staff
| Paediatric Intensivists |
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| Paediatric Critical Care Trainees: |
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| Rotating Trainees: | 3 General Paediatric, 1 Emergency Medicine Registrar and 3 Medical Officers. | |
| Assistant Nursing Director: | Ms Nosipho Lingani | nosipho.lingani@westerncape.gov.za |
| Nursing Operational Managers: | Sr Marleen Petersen Sr Bernadet Francis |
marleen.peters@westerncape.gov.za bernadet.francis@westerncape.gov.za |
| Mentors: | Sr Jo-anne Applegate | Jo-anne.applegate@westerncape.gov.za |
| Social Workers: | Halalisani Ngema Primrose Phokojoe |
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| Clinical Technologists: |
Earl Isaacs |
earl.isaacs@westerncape.gov.za |
Unit Profile
The multi-disciplinary PICU was established in 1999/2000 and was an amalgamation of separate surgical, medical, cardiac and neonatal units. We currently have a 22 bed unit with approximately 1400 annual admissions. Approximately 60% of all admissions are acute medical, we care for about 250 post-operative cardiac patients annually and provide support to general paediatric surgeons, neurosurgeons and transplant programs. The PICU team are actively involved in paediatric life support training and simulation training. In addition there is an active research team involved in a number of projects focussed primarily on the care of the critically ill child.
Teaching and Training
Undergraduate teaching:
Staff members contribute to weekly bedside teaching of 5th year medical students and seminars every 8 weeks to the whole group of students assigned to Paediatrics. Ward rounds are used to educate 5th and 6th year students.
Postgraduate teaching:
The unit provides education and training to undergraduate and postgraduate students, including doctors specialising in paediatrics and paediatricians specialising in paediatric critical care. It is HPCSA accredited for training paediatricians in paediatric critical care in a 2 year training program with the College of Medicine (SA), Certificate in Paediatric Critical Care.
There is also a programme to train paediatricians from other African countries as part of the African Paediatric Fellowship Programme. These trainees spend from 6 months to up to 2 years training in the paediatric critical unit. A Postgraduate Diploma in paediatric critical care is available through the University of Cape Town. The unit also provides supervision and mentorship to a number of post graduate students undertaking Masters or PhD projects. Members of the unit have a strong involvement in continuing medical education initiatives nationally and internationally and in national, African and international professional societies.
Research
Research projects are encouraged and the supervisors will facilitate this.
Critical Care Society of South Africa
College of Medicine of South Africa
World Federation Paediatric Intensive & Critical Care Society
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Journal
http://journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/pages/default.aspx
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Website
Critical Care Medicine
www.journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/pages/default.aspx
Intensive Care Medicine