What is Critical care / Intensive Care?
Critical care (also known as Intensive Care) is the multi-professional healthcare speciality that cares for patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury. Most of us will experience a critical illness or injury, either as the patient, family member or friend of a patient.
Critical care can be provided wherever life is threatened – at the scene of an accident, in an ambulance, in a hospital emergency room, or in the operating room. Most critical care today, however, is delivered in highly specialized intensive critical care units (ICCU), Coronary Care Unit (CCU) or Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU).
Critical care is provided by multi-professional teams of highly experienced and professional physicians, nurses, respiratory care technicians, pharmacists and other allied health professionals who use their unique expertise, ability to interpret important therapeutic information, access to highly sophisticated equipment and the services of support personnel to provide care that leads to the best outcome for the patient.
Patients are rarely admitted directly to the critical care unit. Rather, they are usually admitted from the emergency room, or surgical area where they are first given care and stabilized. The continuum of critical care begins at the moment of illness or injury and continues throughout the patient’s hospitalization, treatment and subsequent recovery.
What kinds of illness and injury usually require critical care?
Typical examples of critical illness include heart attack, poisoning, pneumonia, surgical complications, and stroke. Critical care also includes trauma care – care of the severely injured – whether due to an automobile accident, gunshot or stabbing wounds, a fall, burns, or an industrial accident.
Services
The Critical Care Unit at AIMS is headed by specialized internationally trained Intensivists who provide prompt, dedicated, continuous, specialized care to critically ill patients with a variety of medical or surgical conditions who require complex multi-organ support.
We have an experienced team of intensivists, cardiologist, physician, pulmonologists, nurses and other allied health professionals available 24X7 to take care of critical illnesses and emergencies.
Facilities
- AIMS has best in class 13 bedded CCU, 11 bedded ICU and 4 bedded SICU with all the Life Supporting and most advanced equipment to provide best critical care. Our intensive care units are of international standards, with ultra-modern facilities and infrastructure.
- Facilities of performing bedside bronchoscopy, portable x-ray, sonography, bedside echocardiography