Retrieval

Emergency retrieval services in Victoria are integral to the outcomes for time critical patients requiring retrieval.

Adult Retrieval Victoria (ARV), managed by Ambulance Victoria is responsible for the coordination of adult emergency retrieval services within Victoria. ARV provides coordination of retrieval services within Victoria and provides clinical advice relating to the management of time critical patients requiring retrieval. The service also facilitates access to intensive care and coronary care beds across Victoria.

The Victorian Paediatric Emergency Transport Service (PETS) transfers critically ill children from hospitals throughout Victoria, Tasmania, and southern New South Wales to Royal Children’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. PETS makes the resources of paediatric intensive care available to severely ill children throughout Victoria and offers them safe, expert inter-hospital transfer to a specialist paediatric intensive care. PETS also provides telephone advice to doctors, nurses, and ambulance staff on the resuscitation of critically ill children.

The Newborn Emergency Transport Service (NETS), auspiced by the Royal Women’s Hospital provides safe transportation of sick newborn infants, continuing education in perinatal care and clinical advice regarding care of sick newborn infants.

Publications

Interim Critical Care Capacity Guidelines (PDF file 452KB) - June 2008

Adult emergency retrieval services in Victoria - Discussion paper (PDF File 206KB) - December 2006