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Rehabilitation Technology Unit

Rehabilitation Technology Unit

The Rehabilitation Technology Unit (RTU) is a state-wide service for rehabilitation engineering, orthotics, prosthetics and augmentative and alternative communications specialties. Clinical services are delivered from the State Rehabilitation Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital and at Royal Perth Hospital.

The unit’s primary role is supporting patient rehabilitation and providing technology to optimise functional independence for the individual to deliver safe, effective and reliable discharge into the community.

The RTU employs Rehabilitation Engineers, Orthotists, Prosthetists, Clinical Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, and specialist Technical Officers.

  • Rehabilitation Engineering Clinic (REC) provides wheelchairs (manual and electric), specialised control systems, seating for posture, function and pressure management and complex assistive technology. The service provides loan equipment to assist rehabilitation and facilitate discharge across EMHS and SMHS hospitals, with an Outpatient Clinic at the State Rehabilitation Service.
     
    REC is the state-wide Community Aids and Equipment Program (CAEP) provider for complex devices. REC is not a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider but can provide complex services to participants with self or plan managed Assistive Technology funds.
     
  • Orthotic Services provide a service to adult clients who require clinical assessment and the design or specification and fitting of a commercial or custom orthotic appliance. The service provides a full range of appliances for head, spinal, upper and lower limb motor-skeletal deficiency for both inpatients and outpatients at both FSH and RPH. A central fabrication facility at RPH with robotic CAD-CAM technology supports the clinical units.
     
    The Orthotics Service is the State specialist referral centre for spinal injury/surgery and scoliosis management.
     
  • Prosthetic Services provide interim prosthetic devices for the rehabilitation and discharge of amputee patients from the State Rehabilitation Service. Services include provision of rigid removable dressings to manage stump healing and oedema and the fitting and management of upper and lower limb prostheses as rehabilitation progresses. Definitive devices are supplied in the community by providers contracted under the WA Limb Service to Amputees.
     
  • Communication and Assistive Technology Service (CATS) provides consultation and demonstration of Assistive Technology and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to clients and their managing Allied Health therapists. CATS assist clients to maximise their communication, environmental control, computer access and device mounting to suit their personal circumstances and goals. Our Multidisciplinary team of Rehabilitation Engineers and Speech Pathologists prescribes commercially available and custom designed and manufactured Assistive Technology solutions. CATS provides loan equipment to inpatients across EMHS and SMHS hospitals, with an Outpatient Clinic at the State Rehabilitation Service.
     
    CATS is the state-wide Community Aids and Equipment Program (CAEP) provider for Assistive Technology. CATS is not a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider but can provide complex services to participants with self or plan managed Assistive Technology funds on a fee for service basis.

  • Rehabilitation Engineering Clinic Provides manual and electric wheelchairs, seating for posture, function and pressure management and complex assistive technology to assist rehabilitation and safe discharge for people with disability.
  • Orthotic and Prosthetic Service The Orthotic and Prosthetic team assess the physical and functional limitations of people resulting from illnesses and disabilities, including limb amputations.
  • Communication and Assistive Technology Service Specialist consultation and demonstration of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, computer access, environmental control, and a range of assistive technology solutions to assist rehabilitation and independent living.
Last Updated: 20/09/2022
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East Metropolitan Health Service respects and acknowledges the Whadjuk people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, and of elders past and present.

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