CRITICAL CARE & INTENSIVE CARE
Round the clock access to experienced emergency ready staff with intensive and critical care facilities to provide timely care.
The Critical Care/Intensive Care Unit at MGM Healthcare provides intensive care to patients with severe or life-threatening injuries or illness that require constant care, close supervision from life support systems and continuous medication to maintain normal bodily function that help them stay alive while undergoing treatment or post-surgery. Intensive care represents the highest level of care and treatment provided to critically ill patients with potentially recoverable life-threatening injuries or conditions. The intensive care unit is equipped with high-tech specialized equipments and technologies designed for close monitoring, rapid intervention and extended treatment of patients with acute and multi-organ dysfunctions. These units help maintain vital bodily functions preventing physiological deteriorating thereby reducing mortality and preventing morbidity in critically ill patients. The intensive care unit at MGM Healthcare is one of the best in the country and is supported by a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses across specialities ably supported by a team of rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists, occupational specialists, speech therapists, endocrinologists, radiologist and nutritionists.
Various equipments and technologies are used in the ICU’s and they are mostly aimed at life support and support of different organs in the body such as lings, heart, nervous system, kidney, etc. They include
Intensive care unit can be classified by the organs that they help care for, or by the age of the patient supported (adult or paediatric).
53-year-old male transferred via ambulance three hours by road from a peripheral hospital, presenting acutely unwell with abdominal pain and one week of diarrhoea. He was found to be in multi-organ failure on initial assessment and extremely acidotic due to acute renal failure. Multidisciplinary consensus was to commence emergency dialysis as part of the initial resuscitation. Dialysis was commenced within the hour and the patient was stabilised in the next few hours. Further care was continued in the Medical ICU. The patient was diagnosed to have acute pancreatitis. All organ failures resolved within the next 72 hours and the patient was discharged in 7 days.
Female, aged 60 years, with a background history of interstitial lung disease with multiple bullae on home oxygen, was brought to the ER via ambulance with acute onset of severe breathlessness. On arrival, patient was in extremis with severe tachycardia, hypertension, tachypnoea and severe respiratory acidosis. Examination revealed a large left-sided pneumothorax with a mediastinal shift. Owing to impending tension pneumothorax, patient had an immediate needle decompression followed by an intercostal chest drain (ICD) insertion. She improved immediately after the needle decompression. Vitals stabilised and respiratory distress resolved in the next few minutes. She was considered to have a spontaneous rupture of a bullae and a resultant pneumothorax. She was transferred to the Medical ICU for further management and the ICD was removed after a 24-hour air-free leak period. Patient was discharged in 5 days.
If you or someone in your family or friend’s circle is having a complex, serious neurological injury or illness, serious cardiac condition, severe gastric condition, an orthopaedic emergency, or require intensive care support post any surgery, you will need the medical expertise and advance technologies for accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, caring support and rehabilitation during recovery. MGM Healthcare is housed with the neuro critical care program, gastro critical care program, cardio-thoracic critical care program, ortho critical care program and intensive care units and provides comprehensive critical care to patients with critical and life-threatening injuries and illnesses. Be assured that you are in one of the best hands to come out of your condition back to good health.
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