Intensive care


Intensive care is a subfield of medicine that focuses especially on the responses that humans have to life-threatening conditions. The Critical Care Physician, also known as an Intensivist, is a medical professional who possesses the appropriate education as well as the experience necessary for the assessment and treatment of critically sick patients.

The maximum number of lives can be saved while maintaining reasonable standards. To ensure that we live up to the highest expectations, we make every effort to provide comprehensive treatment for our patients by coordinating the efforts of medical professionals from a variety of fields, as this may be determined to be required for certain patients.

Why choose Altor Hospital for Intensive care?

Our distinct ICUs to give care that is more laser-focused in accordance with the procedures that have been set. The way that we manage our intensive care units is guided by the conviction that the planning and execution of critical care services can, in fact, have an effect on overall results and quality indicators like morality. ICU duration of stay, infection rates, and other relevant statistics.

Advanced ventilators for invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, defibrillators, a fully functional dialysis unit for ICU renal support, bedside ECMO, and a highly skilled cardiology unit for any IABP need are all available.

We have specialized ICUs

  • Respiratory care unit

  • Medical Intensive Care Unit

  • Stroke & Brain Trauma Unit

  • Surgical Intensive Care Unit

  • Cardiac Critical Care Unit


Our services in Intensive care

  • Stroke

  • Shock

  • Acute liver disease

  • Pneumonia

  • Drug overdose

  • Trauma

  • Sepsis

  • Multiple organ failure

  • Bone fractures


What we treat in Intensive care

  • Chest tube insertion

  • Intra-aortic balloon pump therapy

  • Renal replacement therapy

  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

  • Organ transplant management

  • Air way management

  • Central venous catheterization

  • Tracheostomy


FAQs

The long-term care of individuals whose illnesses pose a life-threatening risk is known as critical care. Patients who are suffering from minor injuries like a broken arm or other ailments are also treated in the short term by emergency medicine. If the situation calls for it, patients from the Emergency can be moved to the intensive care unit.

By directly injecting oxygen into the lungs through a plastic breathing tube, a ventilator, also known as a respirator, is used to help breathing.

The heart's function can be temporarily supported by an intra-aortic balloon pump. It is connected to a console by the bedside and inserted into a groyne artery.

Sudden bleeding, irregular heartbeat, and breathing difficulties are typical examples. Patients whose admittance to the intensive care unit (ICU) was prearranged often require only a brief time of observation before being discharged.