The information book - Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service

Quick Help – Monash
Children’s
Call your hospital if you are
concerned about these:
• Anytime your child does not feel well or look right
• Anytime your are worried about your child.
• If temperature is 38° C or above, during business hours call the CCC and
seek advice, after hours call the switch and ask them to page the paediatric
registrar.
• Infection – redness, tenderness anywhere on the body
• Contact with Chicken Pox Measles, or Mumps
• Bleeding – nose bleed for more than five minutes, bleeding gums,
bruising or petechiae (tiny red or purple flat spots on the skin)
• Excessive tiredness, paleness, shortness of breath
• Dehydration – decreased urine, dry mouth, no tears when crying
• Pain –severe or persistent
• Refusing to drink
• Not swallowing saliva
• Missed a dose of medication
• Vomiting less than half an hour after medication
Business hours:
CCC – reception 9594 7660
Nurse Coordinator 9594 7657
After hours:
Paediatric Registrar
Switch 9594 6666
Your child’s hospital – Monash Children’s Sec.2.2:15
Updated March 2011