NIPPY 3 VENTILATOR & CANCER WARD
We are trying to raise enough money to purchase a Nippy 3 Ventilator for the Children’s ward at Poole Hospital and to help towards the modernisation of the cancer ward.
All wards and departments have a “Wish List” of equipment that they would like in order to give the best possible patient care.
The Children’s Ward is divided into four wards Cederwood (outpatients), Elmwood (assessment), Acrewood (medical) and Bearwood (surgical). Acrewood & Bearwood are the main wards where children are admitted, there are 42 beds most of which are single rooms. The wards see children from the age of birth up to sixteen years old (although this will be rising to eighteen next year).
The ward is rapidly growing and with the influx of people coming in to the area, they are getting busier every year. The advances in medical science, means the ward needs new items of equipment. Through the generosity of donations to the Wish List the ward can now get items such as syringe drivers and ECG machines much quicker.
The Children’s Ward is currently ‘wishing’ for a ‘Nippy 3 Ventilator’. This piece of equipment is used by children with breathing difficulties. If the child is unable to breathe the machine starts to work on behalf of the patient. Once staff are happy with the patients progress, they can take this piece of kit home with them, although remaining the property of the hospital. The ward has approximately three to four cases a year so believe that this equipment is vital. The ventilator costs approximately £5000.00.
Tyneham Ward, which is part of Dorset Cancer Centre, will be under going modernisation in 2008. The scope of the project is to increase single occupancy cubicles which give a better degree of privacy for patients and their visitors at what is a very difficult time, as well as providing the facilities to maintain patients in a sterile environment through their treatment. New treatment rooms will be added and new patient lifting equipment will be installed.