Services

Intensive Care Medicine (Protocolised and Aggressive Approach Towards Critical Patients)

The continuous monitoring and treatment of critically ill or injured patients using special medical facilities, equipment, and services Many of the sickest patients need intensive care, even to the point of being connected to a mechanical respirator.
Pulmonologists are doctors who focus on the diseases and conditions that affect the respiratory system. They may treat common problems like asthma or serious conditions such as lung cancer. Many also spend time in a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU), helping patients who are in respiratory failure.

What is considered intensive care?

Intensive care has been defined as “a service for patients with potentially recoverable conditions who can benefit from more detailed observation and invasive treatment than can safely be provided in general wards or high dependency areas.” It is usually reserved for patients with potential or established organ failure

Respiratory failure can be type 1 related to hypoxia (low oxygen levels) Type2 ( related to increase in carbon di oxide)

Management in form of invasive ventilatiory support and Non invasive ventilatory support