Critical Care:
Intensive care , is also Known as critical care, It is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening.
Intensive care relies on multidisciplinary teams composed of many different health professionals. Such teams often include doctors, nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists, among others. They usually work together in intensive care units (ICUs) in our Hospital. It includes providing life support, invasive monitoring techniques, Resuscitation, End-of-life care.
We have a Team of Doctors in this specialty as providing intensive care by our physicians as well as intensivists. Intensive care relies on multidisciplinary teams composed of many different health professionals. Such teams often include doctors, nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists, among others. They usually work together in intensive care units (ICUs) in our Hospital.
Scope of Critical Care:
Our Critical Care aims to improve the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to intensivists. Critical Care aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the intensive care field. Patients may also be admitted to the ICU for close monitoring or intensive needs following a major surgery.
Types of intensive care units:
Our intensive care unit (ICU) or critical care unit (CCU) have designated intensive care areas for certain specialties of medicine. The naming is not rigidly standardized, and types of units are dictated by the needs and available resources of hospital. These include:
- coronary intensive care unit (CCU or sometimes CICU) for heart disease
- medical intensive care unit (MICU)
- surgical intensive care unit (SICU)
- pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
- neuroscience critical care unit (NCCU)
- overnight intensive-recovery (OIR)
- shock/trauma intensive-care unit (STICU)
- neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- ICU in the emergency department (E-ICU)