About Westmead Hospital

Westmead Hospital was first opened in 1978 as a 975 bed teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. It is located in Western Sydney, some 40 minutes drive west of Sydney's CBD, and serves a population of 1.5 million people.

The Westmead Hospital Department of Anaesthesia is part of the University of Sydney Department of Anaesthesia, it is staffed by some 40 60nsultants, 32 registrars and five senior registrars/provisional fellows. The Department head is Assoc. Prof. Peter Klineberg .

The Department provides anaesthesia services for the 16 theatre Operating Room suite, 10 room Delivery suite, Radiology, Endoscopy as well as the Westmead Hospital Dental Clinical School.

Anaesthetic sub specialties provided by the Department include: Cardiac and Thoracic Anaesthesia (including transoesophageal echocardiography), Neurosurgical Anaesthesia, ENT Anaesthesia, Anaesthesia for Head & Neck and Burns Surgery, Transplant surgery, Obstetric Anaesthesia, Trauma Anaesthesia and Acute, Cancer + Chronic Pain Management. There is also good exposure to the more routine cases such as orthopaedics and general surgery.

An active teaching program is in place for both the FANZCA Primary and Final Fellowship examinations.