Westmead Hospital
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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 30 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 60 consultants, 35 Registrars/Senior Registrars.
The Department head is Assoc/Prof. Peter Klineberg .
The Department provides anaesthesia services for the 17 theatre Operating Room suite, 13 room Delivery suite, Radiology, Endoscopy, Interventional Neuroradiology, PET scanning, Cardiac catheter lab 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, High Risk 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 – see our lectures on-line.
Westmead Hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney - Faculty of Medicine. The Faculty is Australia's oldest and largest medical faculty (est. 1856) undertaking teaching and research in health and medicine of international standing. As part of the University's Faculties of Health, the Medicine Faculty is the largest and most comprehensive grouping of health and medical education and research in the Asia Pacific region. As part of the Western Clinical School, teaching facilities at Westmead form an integral part of education as the largest of the University’s four centres of clinical care in Sydney.