Center For Critical Care & Emergency Services
Center for Critical Care & Emergency Services at Padiyath Medicity Hopital Du Cinquantenaire integrate many specialties and diverse technologies, offering the possibility of survival to patients who are acutely and critically ill.
Center For Critical Care & Emergency Services
Center for Critical Care & Emergency Services at Padiyath Medicity Hopital Du Cinquantenaire integrate many specialties and diverse technologies, offering the possibility of survival to patients who are acutely and critically ill. They are designed and managed based on the fact that methodical organisation of Critical Care services influences important overall outcome measures such as mortality, length of stay and infection rates.
Our Center has doctors to handle emergencies round the clock. The dedicated resuscitation room has all the necessary equipment to stabilize patients. This will be the first emergency care center in Africa which has both Medical & Surgical ICUs in Critical Care Department.
The doctors are well trained to handle disaster or mass casualties, including poly trauma cases with the help of standardized protocols and procedures. Critical care offers 24/7 care to patients in potentially life-threatening conditions who need continuous monitoring to be carried out by a multidisciplinary team.
Highlights
- Africa's first EMR care Center with full fledged medical & Surgical ICU
- Thrombolysis for myocardial infarction (24x7)
- A fully equipped Emergency Department to handle any trauma, surgical, and medical emergencies in both adults and pediatric patients (24x7)
- Emergency room coverage by board certified Accident and Emergency Medicine Physicians trained nationally and internationally(24x7)
- Dedicated Stroke team for early management &thrombolysis in stroke (24x7)
- State of the art fully equipped Advanced Cardiac Life Support ambulance with ventilator and defibrillator capable of handling medical and surgical emergencies including transport of Trauma victims (24x7)
- Supportive services like laboratory / blood bank /X ray / CT scan (24x7)
- Evidence based Emergency Medicine practice (24x7)
- Basic Life Support / Advanced Cardiac Life Support / Trauma Life support trained emergency nursing staffs (24x7)
- Ensured safe pick up and on - board emergency care in the Ambulance during pickups and transfers by qualified Emergency and Trauma Care Technicians (24x7)
- Basic life support ambulance equipped to handle minor emergencies(24x7)
- Supportive sub specialties consultation and services like general surgery, Cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatric surgery and general medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery, urology, oncology(24x7)
Facilities
- A plaster room and an isolation room
- A large treatment room with two operative tables, lights and Anaesthesia machines
- Cardiac Monitors, Ventilators and portable X-ray, Sonography & 2 D Echo machines
- Two dedicated elevators for immediate transfer of patients to the operating rooms and Intensive Care Units.
Major services
- Surgical Emergencies.
- Neurological Emergencies: Acute Stroke, Seizures, Headaches, etc.
- Toxicological Emergencies: Snake Bite, Envenomation, Drug Overdose, Poisoning, etc.
- Environmental Emergencies, Burns, etc.
- Cardiac Emergencies: Heart Attack (ACS), Heart Rhythm Problems (Arrhythmias), Cardiac Failure, etc.
- Accident/Trauma Care ER Team also plays a lead role in hospital cardiac arrest management (Code Blue)
- Respiratory Emergencies: Severe Asthma/COPD, Pneumothorax, etc.
- Emergency Room is the "point of first contact" to the hospital at the time of any medical crisis.
- Any Infections/Sepsis : Treatment Protocols initiated in the ER as per international guidelines/standards.
Treatments and procedures
- Different methods of airway management
- Ventilator support
- Arterial line placement
- Continuous cardiac monitoring
- Synchronized cardioversion
- Continuous vasoactive and antiarrhythmic drug infusions
- Haemodialysis
- Bronchoscopy
- Arterial blood sampling
- Nasojejunal tube placement
- Lumbar puncture
- Thoracentesis
- Percutaneous tracheostomy
- Central venous line placement
- Invasive pulmonary artery hemodynamic monitoring
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Temporary pacemaker insertion and maintenance
- Thrombolytic infusion
- Peritoneal dialysis
- TPN
- Nasogastric tube placement
- PEG
- Abdominal paracentesis
- ICD tube placement
Ambulance Services
Salient Features Include:
Ambulance services for picking up patients who need to be brought to the hospital for treatment are available. Our ambulances also serve as Mobile Intensive Care Units. This facility is available 24 hours a day, on all days. Arrangements for ambulance can be made by calling the hospital or the Emergency Department directly.
The "Advanced Care - Ambulance Team" also includes a trained doctor, emergency technician, and a nurse who are well equipped to transfer critically ill patients.
All equipped ambulances are fully air-conditioned, spacious and with meticulously designed interiors meeting international standards.
- Uninterrupted power supply
- Pulse Oxymeter (to check the oxygen level)
- Ventilator (respirator) for use in patients with respiratory failure
- Cardiac Monitor
- Ambu- box containing life saving medicines and equipments.
- Pacemaker if the patient has a "heart block" or Bradycardia.
- ET Co2 monitoring
- Defibrillator
- The ICU ambulance is accompanied by an Emergency Physician, 2 Nurses and Ambulance Technician.
The Padiyath Medicity - Hopital Du Cinquantenaire Mobile ICU could be utilized by the general public and by the hospitals of primary and secondary care. The request for this service is accepted from the doctor or from the general public for any medical emergencies like road accidents, fire accidents, heart attack, electric shock, industrial accidents, snake bite, etc.
Padiyath Medicity - Hopital Du Cinquantenaire is a pioneer of modern day emergency care in Africa. It set up the 'National Network of Emergency Services' to provide emergency care of uniform quality standards across the country. To the best of its capability, the Center for Critical Care & Emergency services has reflected the ethos of the Padiyath Medicity Hopital Du Cinquantenaire.