We have ensured that the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at H. M. Surgical Hospital is recognized as a Centre of Excellence that has been providing safe, timely, high-quality care and comfort to all patients, with any form of critical illness.
Special arrangement is made for the waiting patient’s family member besides the ICU. The units have beds with dialysis facilities, specially designed positive and negative isolation facilities. Our department has cubicles for each bed and transparent doors to reduce disturbance to patients. Each cubicle has windows that provide daylight which is most important to maintain a normal sleep pattern.
Why Us?
This Department is led by a team of experienced doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians, technicians, counselors, and support staff who provide a full spectrum of critical care services 24 hours a day. Together, the team provides high quality and safe care in ICUs.
Few Features of this Department:
- Monitors and Ventilators on all beds
- Advanced hemodynamic monitoring
- Dedicated Echo and ultrasound machine for ICU
- Dedicated Bronchoscope for ICU
- Difficult intubation cart
- ICP monitoring device
- CRRT/ SLEDD machines for ICU
- Portable ECMO
- Monitoring and recording heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels and other relevant clinical parameters
- Taking regular blood and urine tests
- Administering medicines and fluids as advised by the treating doctors
- Monitoring pain score and administering pain reducing medicines
- Turning the patient in bed every few hours to prevent sores on the skin
- General care of eyes, mouth, sponging, and clearing mucus from chest, dressings as required
- Provide care of lines and tubes attached to the patient