Paediatric retrievals in South Australia.

Since the early 1970s there has been a co-ordinated retrieval service in South Australia for adult, paediatric and neonatal patients. The paediatric service has been mounted from the Adelaide Children's Hospital and to the end of 1983 numbers 379 patients, including 90 patients in 1983. This is now providing a considerable workload on the Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Departments. The records have been entered into a file program in a microcomputer and analysed. The results of this analysis are presented and discussed.