The department of Critical Care Medicine at Citizens Specialty Hospitals equipped to handle all types of emergency conditions with requisite expertise and care. Looking at its severity, our critical care unit adopts a rapid and multidisciplinary treatment approach to any kind of medical emergency. We ensure round-the-clock treatments to critically ill patients who require life support system and other intensive medical interventions.
Our expert critical care team is trained as per US standards of emergency care, have wide experience in the evaluation and management of these critically ill patients, and is capable of ensuring that the best available treatment is meted out to patients. Our specially designed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) represents the pinnacle of our hospital’s approach to evidence-based, high-technology-patient care.
All ICU beds are equipped with advanced invasive ventilators and advanced multi-channel physiological monitoring systems with central and distant site internet accessibility to ensure maximum patient safety and access to critical information for doctors and nurses. Units are fully equipped with technology such as flexible Fiber opticbronchoscopy, ultrasonography and echocardiography machines for both diagnostic and therapeutic purpose.
We have successfully treated several critical and emergency cases involving Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Respiratory Failure, tropical diseases such as Dengue, severe malaria, Chronic renal failure, medical condition with multi-organ dysfunction, complicated post-surgical cases, major bowel surgery and various other major critical medical cases.
Our expertise lies in managing:
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome(ARDS)
- Respiratory Failure (Due to COPD, Bronchial Asthma, Pneumonia etc)
- Severe sepsis and Septic Shock
- Tropical diseases such as Dengue, severe malaria, Leptospira etc
- Myocardial Infarction
- Heart Failure
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Acute and Chronic renal failure
- Medical condition with multi-organ dysfunction
Complicated post-surgical cases such as
- Pneumonectomy, Sleeve lobectomies and lobectomies
- Esophagectomy, Major bowel surgery and other major cancer surgeries
- Mechanical Ventilation(invasive, non-invasive)
- Resuscitation and outreach services for ward and emergency room round the clock
- Advanced Airway management and Percutaneous tracheostomy
Invasive vascular procedures including
- Central venous line placement
- Arterial line placement
- Invasive pulmonary artery catheterization
- Dialysis catheterization
- Temporary pacemaker placement
Hemodynamic monitoring including minimally invasive CO monitoring techniques
- Synchronized cardio version
- Thrombolytic infusion
- Hemodialysis
- CRRT
- Bronchoscopy
- Ultrasonography
- Echocardiography
- Lumbar puncture
- Abdominal paracentesis
- Thoracentesis
- ICD tube placement
- Nutritional planning
