The ICU & Critical care department is at the core of most lifesaving treatments. Patients are monitored round the clock in sterile, infection safe environments by highly trained physicians, specialist nurses, respiratory therapists, counsellors and a number of specialists who are on call to assist in emergency situations.
- Heart ailments
- Lung ailments
- Drug-resistant infections
- Organ failure
- Blood infections
- Brain trauma
Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring
Critically ill patients are often hemodynamically unstable (or at risk of becoming unstable) owing to hypovolemia, cardiac dysfunction, or alterations of vasomotor function, leading to organ dysfunction, deterioration into multi-organ failure, and eventually death. With hemodynamic monitoring, we guide our medical management so as to prevent or treat organ failure and improve the outcomes of our patients. Therapeutic measures may include fluid resuscitation, vasopressors, or inotropic agents. Both resuscitation and de-resuscitation phases can be guided using hemodynamic monitoring.
Chest Tube Placement
Traumas are the leading cause of death in the first four decades of life. Nevertheless, thoracic traumas only seldom require invasive procedures. In particular, chest drain placement is required in case of pleural disruption causing haemothorax, pneumothorax or haemopneumothorax.
Tracheostomy
In some cases, when a patient’s airway is restricted, an emergency tracheostomy is performed to allow a tube to go directly from a ventilator to the patient’s windpipe through a precise incision on the neck. The procedure allows the patient to breathe while other diagnostic approaches and treatments are considered.
Critical care facilities
- Severe injury ICU (burns, road accidents etc.)
- Specialist ICUs
- Surgical ICU
- Neurological ICU
- Post-anesthesia care unit
- High dependency unit
- Psychiatric ICU
- ICU facilities
- Respirators/ventilator
- Cardiac monitors (heart rate, BP)
- IV drips
- Sedatives & Anaesthetics (for severe pain)
- Defibrillator (to restart the heart)
- Emergency tracheostomy (for respiratory emergencies)
