Intensive Care

The ICU Provides Services For:

• Patients needing ventilatory support for any critical illness such as pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe asthma, obstructive airway disease or acute lung injuries
• Non-invasive ventilation for acute pulmonary edema from kidney or cardiac related causes and other milder lung infections
• All forms of shock, such as septic shock, dengue shock, cardiogenic shock, hypovolemic shock, where resuscitation is based on clinical assessment aided with advanced haemodynamic assessment and intra aortic balloon pump
• Neurocritical care services
• Trauma critical care services
• Post-operative care following coronary artery bypass surgeries, thoracotomy and valve replacement surgeries, major abdominal, head, neck and spine surgeries
• Medical emergencies such as diabetic ketoacidosis, acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, liver failure, renal failure, stroke, haematological malignancy services with ICU support
• All forms of organ support: continuous renal replacement therapy, slow low efficiency dialysis, cytokine removal with special filter
• Involvement of allied health professionals: physiotherapy, dietitian, occupational therapy and pharmacy support
• Multimodal pain management in the critically ill
• Isolation rooms for infective cases such as pulmonary TB, influenza, varicella zoster
• Maintenance of organ donors for organ harvesting in patients who are brain dead and potential donors
• Anyone who will benefit from advance monitoring and critical care
• Radio-interventional services