Critical Care
Unit (ICU)
Why Choose Wockhardt Hospitals
For Critical care?
Why Choose Wockhardt Hospitals
for Critical care?
The Critical Care units at Wockhardt Hospitals, are a combination of many specialties and technologies, offering a real chance of survival to patients who are acutely and critically ill. Our ICUs are designed and managed based on the fact that the methodical organization of Critical Care services influence important overall outcome measures such as mortality, length of stay and infection rates. There are multidisciplinary ICUs as well as ICUs dedicated to post-cardiac surgery patients, stroke patients, post-transplant patients, infectious disease patients as well as special ICUs for neonates and paediatric cases. Wockhardt Hospitals also have Acute care services in which active ER team coordinates with Intensive care team and Anaesthesia team for seamless, efficient and precise patient care. Prompt ambulance facility follows emergency protocols while bringing patients safely to the hospital. You can always choose Wockhardt Hospitals if you are looking for the best Critical care hospital in India.
Renowned Cricical
Care
at Wockhardt Hospitals
PROCEDURES PERFORMED:
- Non-invasive and invasive hemodynamic monitoring
- Intra-aortic balloon pump placement
- Temporary pacemaker placement
- Non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation
- Difficult airway management
- Percutaneous tracheostomy
- Fiber-optic bronchoscopy
- Inter-Costal drainage
- Percutaneous gastrostomy and G.I. endoscopy
- Haemodialysis/SLLED/CRRT
- Intra-abdominal pressure monitoring
- Bedside 2D echo Doppler & Ultra Sonography including F.A.S.T for trauma
- Pain management
- ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation)
What is Critical Care Unit?
Multidisciplinary team catering to critically ill patients involving life-threatening conditions including septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome etc.
Specialties in Critical Care ( ICU ) – Diagnosis and Treatment :
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU): This ICU caters to patients with Myocardial infarction, Cardiogenic shock, Arrhythmias, Heart failure, Hypertensive emergencies, ECMO, Post ventricular assist devices, Post TAVI and post-cardiac arrest.
- Neurological Intensive Care Unit (Neuro ICU): Patients here are treated for stroke, Head trauma and post-surgical patients, aneurysms and brain tumours. who have undergone various neurological surgeries and require hourly neurological examination and care. We have certified Neuro-Intensive Care including including nurses who work within these units.
- Trauma Intensive Care Unit (Trauma ICU): A dedicated, Trauma Emergency Department equipped with a team of Intensivists, Emergency physicians, Anaesthetist, Surgeons, Nurses, Respiratory therapists, and Radiological staff.
- Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU): A specialized service in larger hospitals like Wockhardt provides in-patient care for critically ill patients on surgical services. As opposed to other ICUs, the care is managed by Intensivists and surgeons trained in critical care.
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): This specialty unit cares for neonatal patients who have not left the hospital after birth. Common conditions cared for include prematurity and associated complications, congenital disorders or complications resulting from the birthing process.
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): Paediatric patients are treated in this intensive care unit for life-threatening medical problems such as asthma, influenza, diabetic ketoacidosis, or traumatic brain injury. Surgical cases may also be transferred to the PICU postoperatively if the patient has a potential for rapid deterioration and requires more frequent monitoring, such as in spinal fusions or surgeries involving the airway such as removal of the tonsils or adenoids. We also have specialized paediatric cardiac intensive care units, where patients with congenital heart disease are cared for. The unit also can handle cardiac transplantation and postop care of cardiac catheterization patients if required.
Who needs to be
treated in ICU?
Critical care is given to those seriously ill or suffering from lethal diseases. These patients are admitted to ICU, where they are well-treated and constantly monitored. Also, patients who have undergone major surgeries are treated in ICU. In general, patients suffering from shock, cardiac arrest, sepsis, brain injury and other severe diseases need to be treated in ICU. Critical care units help them to recover fast.
Conditions that need Critical care –
Below are the conditions that need critical care :
- COVID -19
- Burn injuries
- Severe bleeding and infections
- Heart attack and failure
- Respiratory failure
- Patients underwent major surgeries
- Kidney failure
- Serious injuries such as from accidents, shootings, falls, etc.
- Shock and stroke
- Sepsis
- Allergic reactions
- Poisoning
- Pneumonia
- Fractures
- Acute renal failure
Academic programmes in
Critical care at Wockhardt Hospitals
The Critical Care Unit has an academic programme including DrNB which is 3 years full-time super speciality training accredited by National Board of Examinations.
Advanced Technologies
for your Better Care
The doctors and other staff at Wockhardt Hospitals use advanced technologies to deliver better ICU care to patients
- We use a Multidisciplinary approach to treating patients
- The doctors use the latest medical equipment, including monitoring systems and patient cubicles
- Having hands-on experience, the hospital staff carries out the best prevention practices to reduce the risk of infections during ICU care
- The hospital also has advanced drug administration techniques and the latest drug treatment regimens
- In addition, critical care units have CRRT, ECMO, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, continuous feeding, communication systems and ventilators.
