Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - Critical Care and Clinical Support Services Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

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Details

Organisation Name: Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
HHS: Metro North
Services Offered: Clinical trials site; Treatment of patients
Website Address: www.health.qld.gov.au/services/metronorth/metronorth_rbwh
Contact: Dr Shane Townsend- RBWH_DICM_RESEARCH@health.gov.au
Other Affiliated Research Sites: N/A

Location

-27.446583 - 153.027796

Is your Facility able to initiate study activities prior to Ethics Committee protocol approval?

How long before Ethics Committee review is the Submission Packet required?

2 weeks

Site Overview

Critical Care and Clinical Support Services (CC&CSS) is one of the largest service lines within the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH). The service line provides comprehensive critical care and clinical support services to RBWH patients with secondary, tertiary and quaternary referral service for hospitals and medical practitioners in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

HREC

- HREC Committee Name: Metro North HREC
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes

Facility staffing and training

- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes

Licenses to receive, store, dispense and return controlled substances

- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? Yes

Equipment

- Investigational Product: Horizontal laminar flow hood (non-hazardous drug preparation)
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes

Patient Records

- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Sponsor

Investigational product storage Capabilities

- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes

Specialty Research Area

Critical Care

ICU

Incontinence

Sepsis

Wounds and Injuries

Source Document Types

Paper and Electronic

Average time to start study (in calendar days)

Less than 30

How long prior to HREC meeting does the application need to be submitted?

2 weeks

Does your Facility support in-patient admissions?

Yes

PK & PD specimens

Yes

Study Phase Capability

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III

Type of Diagnostic Equipment

CT Scan Computerized Tomography Scan

ECG/EKG Electrocardiogram

MRA Magnetic Resonance Angiography

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

PET Positron Emission Tomography Scan

X-Ray

Patient Population

Adults - Ages 18-64

Geriatrics 65 and onwards