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ANAESTHESIA - All branches of anaesthesia including Cardiac
anaesthesia, Neuro anaesthesia, Orthopaedics, Urology, ENT, Cancer surgery, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology etc.
CRITICAL CARE UNIT- The art of medicine lies in balancing treatment of the risk of associated side effects involved because of non-invasive & invasive treatment modalities. Critical care medicine is an offshoot of this concept. Critical care unit is designed for patients who need & can benefit from facilities & services, which are not available in other hospital areas. Such patients usually have failure, or potential failure, of one or more major systems. They therefore need continuous support, monitoring, nursing care & availability of medical staff. Modern critical care has developed from respiratory & coronary care with continued momentum provided by the clinical & technological developments in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Pharmacological & mechanical circulatory support, advances in the treatment of renal failure, respiratory failure, neurological problems, multiple organ failure & patient monitoring systems.
With so much of research & technological advances being made in the field of medicine, there is continuous change in the management of patient problems. It is very difficult to maintain the recommended standards of medical care. Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad, with the largest network of critical care facilities in whole of Andhra Pradesh is constantly striving to provide the recommended care to its patients. In order to streamline the treatment for patients with different kinds of illness, it has segregated its critical care areas into medical, surgical, neuro & cardiac intensive care units. This is done solely to provide the optimum care to the needy patients.
RECOVERY ROOM : Has 12 beds with ECG, pulse oximetry and NIBP for every bed.
Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
This intensive care caters to the patients having medical illness like Asthama, smoking disorders, liver problems, kidney problems, poisoning and other problems. This unit is equipped with latest generation of Ventilators & monitoring by systems. Patients, who are having kidney failure & on life support measures, cannot be transferred to the Dialysis unit. To help this kind of patients two beds are provided with bedside dialysis facilities. This unit has the distinction (non-invasive ventilation) being the first few units in the state of having used non-invasive ventilation. Lot of clinical trials are carried out under strict supervision of experts.
Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
Patients who undergo major surgical procedures require close monitoring for upto two to three days. The surgical patients have the highest chance of getting infections from other patients. To prevent this, these patients are managed in cubicles with the help of barrier nursing. This unit admits all major abdominal, Urologic, Gynaecologic, Plastic, Oncology, Orthopaedics & other surgical Patients.
To counter the hypothermia following major enquires, the unit is provided with warming blanket systems. This unit is also provided with bedside dialysis facilities, Ventilators & the latest generation of monitoring system.
Neuro Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
This unit was introduced keeping in view the need for special care to patients with neurological problems. The main problem faced by many of these patients are unconsciousness or semi-consciousness, seizures & morbidity requiring rehabilitation. This unit has been provided with Web Camera, to facilitate the patient attendants eagerness to see their patients. These patients are vulnerable for cross infection became of their inability to take care of their health. To prevent this catastrophe infected & non-infected patients are managed by barrier nursing. The personnel working in this area wear a special dress designed for preventing them from infection between patient and their (working) personnel. To monitor the changes pressure inside the spine / brain, intracranial pressure monitoring system is used. To know the activity of brain, electroencephalogram (EEG) is used as bedside equipment to know the problem at the earliest. The unit also has the facility of Music Therapy
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
Patients with heart problems can easily get into problems within fraction of second by a massive heart attack. Hence patients with these problems will have to be managed in a cardiac intensive care unit. This is equipped with central monitoring system to keep a track of beat to beat variation in heart rhythm. This unit is attached to Cath lab, so that in case patient requires urgent intervention, there will not be any delay. Certain special infusion by items and circulatory support devices (Intra Aortic Balloon Pump-IABP) are kept ready for any kind of emergencies.
All these critical care units are managed by doctors who are pioneers in their profession. They are ably supported by well trained nursing professionals. The patients are constantly under close monitoring / vigilance round the clock by highly trained clinicians. Excellent record maintenance, quick laboratory response & fantastic supportive services are a boon for any excellent critical care unit. Apollo Hospitals is proud to have these kind of services.
To provide a human touch to all these services for interaction with patient attendants, each critical care unit is provided with a counseling room. This area provides an opportunity for patient attendants to directly interact with the clinician and express their feelings. It is not a surprise that Apollo Hospitals got ISO 9002 Certification. All the information gathered by the clinical management is pooled for research.
In our emotions to treat the disease. Most often people forget that they are treating a human being. Every human being goes through emotional upset, anxiety, pain, when kept in a place like Critical Care Unit. Of late this problem is receiving lot of attention. Patients are sedated during their stay in ICU. Pain relief is provided with many drugs and gadgets all these things or physician let, patient might have increased or decreased requirements to solve their problem patient controlled analgesia has been introduced patient can adjust paying relief measure as much he requires.
A Critical Care Unit gets patients who are very sick infected and haemodynamically unstable. These patients can spread the infection to other patients to counter this problem. Apollo hospital has its own anti- biotic policy regular using of bacterial filters quick reporting of culture results judicious use of anti-biotics has ensured reduction in the growth of drug resistant micro-organisms.
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