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The Critical Care units at Apollo Hospitals, India integrate many specialties and diverse technologies, offering the possibility of survival to patients who are acutely and critically ill. Creating a Critical Care unit that meets international standards is a complex process. This is because Critical Care is a specialty that crosses traditional departmental lines typically seen in hospitals and also draws from a wide range of specialties including Anesthesiology, Internal medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, etc.
Critical Care units represent the apex of technical advancements in medicine. Such units integrate many specialities and diverse technologies, offering the possibility of survival to patients who would otherwise not survive. It is therefore obvious that the role of the Critical Care services is vital and crucial to a tertiary care hospital, as the Critical Care unit contributes immensely to survival of acutely and critically ill patients.
The Critical Care Units at each of the Apollo Hospitals are Centres of Excellence in their own right. The Critical Care Units aredesigned and managed based on the fact that methodical organisation of Critical Care services influences important overall outcome measures such as mortality, length of stay, infection rates and overall resource utilisation. This means that a lot of emphasis is also placed on areas like nurses training, standardizing care through clinical pathways, identification of ethical and economic issues pertaining to Critical Care, managing the in-hospital environment, infection control and end of life care.
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Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
The Critical Care Unit at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, is a multidisciplinary unit where patients with medical, cardiac or surgical problems are managed. The primary goal of the CCU is to provide high quality care to patients with critical illness. The CCU functions as a 'semi-closed' unit, where patients may be admitted by any member of the medical staff with admitting privileges, but consultation is routinely provided by members of the Critical Care Consultants Group (CCCG). Members of the Critical Care team closely communicate with the primary consultants and provide appropriate care.
There is also great focus on training since Critical Care is evolving as a super-speciality and currently there is an ongoing need for trained intensivists. The Critical Care Unit at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, has 74 beds. Patients with Cardiac, Medical, Surgical, Paediatric and Neurological disorders needing intensive care, are admitted in this unit.
The Critical Care Unit is demarcated into the following areas-
- Medical and Surgical CCU
- Cardiac and Cardio thoracic CCU
There are 19 beds exclusively for Cardiac patients, including patients with Myocardial infarction, Acute coronary angina, Acute Pulmonary Oedema, Post Cath and Post PTCA.
- Pediatric CCU
- Neuro CCU
- High Dependency Unit
The unit is well equipped with Dialysis facilities in 9 rooms. The patient's Hemodynamics can be constantly monitored by means of Central monitors placed in the nurses' station, where the patients' records can be viewed on the screen.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
Critical care at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital New Delhiaims to provide acute care for those patients who are generally unstable, critically ill and those in urgent need of advanced monitoring and intensive treatments.These tasks are carried out with precision, synchronization and coordination of a multidisciplinary team in eight ICU's with unwavering commitment and teamwork. The Critical Care team provides a full spectrum of Medical, Cardiac, Surgery and trauma critical care services to very critically ill patients. The Physicians are highly skilled and specialized in diverse specialities of Medicine and Surgery. The nursing care is focussed to meet the psychological, physical and emotional needs of the patient.Essential for the quality of Critical care provided by Indraprastha Apollo Hospital are its facilities. The ICU's unique design enables the nursing and physician staff to have a full view of virtually all patients at all times. Each of the 120 beds has state-of-the-art technology that enables staff to monitor patient's vital signs continually.
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
Apollo Hospital Hyderabad has the largest CCU in Andhra Pradesh, India and these are segregated into the following units -
- Medical CCU
- Surgical CCU
- CT Post Operative CCU
- Cath CCU
- Neonatal CCU
- Neuro CCU
- Burns Unit
- BMT unit
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