Staff profile

Dr Wendy E Pollock

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department of Midwifery

Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

RN, RM, Grad Dip Crit Care Nsg, Grad Dip Ed, Grad Cert Adv Learn & Leadership, PhD

Membership of professional associations

ACCCN, ACM, SOMANZ, PSANZ, RCNA

Area of study

Midwifery

Brief profile

 Dr Wendy Pollock is a critical care nurse and midwife who examined the characteristics, severity of illness and provision of acute health services to critically ill pregnant and postnatal women for her PhD thesis. She sits on the Victorian CCOPMM Maternal Mortality and Morbidity sub-committee and sat on the National Advisory Committee on Maternal Mortality. Wendy was part of the Haemostasis Registry Obstetric Committee that examined the use of recombinant Factor VIIa for obstetric haemorrhage, contributed the Obstetric Chapter for the Emergency Triage Education Kit and has published extensively on topics related to maternal critical illness and severe maternal morbidity. Presently, Wendy sits on the National Board of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses, is an Associate Investigator on the Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System and is conducting research on a number of areas related to severe maternal morbidity in her role as a Research Fellow, La Trobe University/Mercy Hospital for Women.

 

Research interests

Pregnancy and childbirth

- Any topic around maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.

Recent publications

Pollock W., Harley N., Nelson S. Maternal severity of illness across levels of care: a prospective study. Australian Critical Care. 2011. [In press; available on line - doi:10.1016/j.aucc.2011.03.002]

East C, Conway K, Pollock W, Brennecke S, on behalf of Australian Action on Pre-eclampsia. Women’s experiences of pre-eclampsia: Australian Action on Pre-eclampsia survey of women and their confidants. Journal of Pregnancy. 2011. [Article ID 375653, 6 pages - doi:10.1155/2011/375653] 

Pollock W., Rose L., Dennis C-L. Pregnant and postpartum admissions to the intensive care unit: a systematic review. Intensive Care Medicine. 2010;36(9):1465-1474.

The ANZIC Influenza Investigators* and the Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System: Seppelt I, Sullivan E, Bellomo R, Ellwood D, Finfer S, Howe B, Knight M, McArthur C, McDonnell N, McLintock C, Morgan T, Morrison S, Nguyen N, Peek M, Pollock W, Vaughan G, Webb S, Wang A. Critical Illness Due To Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 In Pregnant and Postpartum Women. British Medical Journal 2010; 340:c1279 (doi:10.1136/bmj.c1279).

Phillips L, McLintock C, Pollock W, Gatt S, Popham P, Jankelowitz G, Ogle R, Cameron P. Recombinant Activated Factor VII in obstetric haemorrhage: experiences from the Australian and New Zealand Haemostasis Register. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2009;109:1908-1915.

Gerdtz MF, Chu M, Collins M, Considine J, Crellin D, Sands N, Stewart C. Pollock WE. Factors influencing consistency of triage using the Australasian Triage Scale: Implications for guideline development. Emerg Med Australasia, 2009;21(4):277-285.

Kildea S, Pollock W, Barclay L. Making pregnancy safer – maternal death review in Australia. Aust & NZ J Obstet Gynaecol, 2008;48(2):130-136.

Pollock W, Sullivan E, Nelson S,  King J. Capacity to monitor severe maternal morbidity in Australia. Aust & NZ J Obstet Gynaecol, 2008;48(1):17-25.

Pollock W. Caring for pregnant and postnatal women in ICU: what do we know? Australian Critical Care, 2006;19(2):54-65.

  Pollock W, Nelson S. Core Research Teams: a strategy to research critically ill pregnant and postnatal women. Contemporary Nurse, 2002;14(1):95-105.

 

 

Research projects

Associate Investigator on 'Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System' (AMOSS) project - funded by NHMRC project grant (2008-2012  ID#510298)

‘Mechanical ventilation in pregnant women with H1N1 influenza’ - funded by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust ($21,637)

'Pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination uptake in pregnancy'

'Postnatal adaptation following ICU admission'