Department of Critical Care

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Department Of Critical Care:

At Lifeline Tulasi Hospital, the Department of Critical Care medicine is one of the most important specialties taking care of all seriously ill patients and is often considered as the heart of the hospital. The predominant function of critical care medicine is to evaluate, diagnose, monitor and treat patients who are sick and beyond the capacity to treat as outpatient or ward or room care. Intensivists (Critical Care Medicine physicians) are trained to deliver advanced care such as ventilation, dialysis, hemodynamic monitoring (BP, heart rate, cardiac output), tracheostomy and other life-sustaining procedures.

Department of Critical Care Medicine

In Lifeline Tulasi Hospital, an experienced team of intensivists (physicians with certified super speciality degrees in critical care medicine), specialized nurses and other support staff, work in coordination with other allied specialists such as Critical Cares, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, nephrologists, etc., providing the best possible care to a seriously ill patient.

Salient Features of the Department of Critical Care, Lifeline Tulasi Hospital:

Multidisciplinary team treating wide spectrum of illnesses, including multi organ failures. Particularly experienced in treating infectious, gastroenterological and liver patients.
Separate Isolation Room ICU Care to prevent spread of cross infections with positive and negative ventilation facility.
Standalone liver critical care unit.
Advanced Care such as High end hemodynamic monitoring, invasive neuro monitoring, ECMO and CRRT
Point of Care Ultrasound and 2D echo for evaluation and monitoring ICU patients
Rehabilitation which includes early nutrition, mobilizing the patient soon out of the bed, providing physiotherapy, restore core body strength and most importantly motivating the patient.
Extensive family counselling.

Procedures

Kidney transplant
Liver transplant
Lung transplant

A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidneys no longer function properly.

A liver transplant is a surgical procedure that removes a liver that no longer functions properly (liver failure) and replaces it with a healthy liver from a deceased donor or a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor.

A lung transplant is a surgical procedure to replace a diseased or failing lung with a healthy lung, usually from a deceased donor. A lung transplant is reserved for people who have tried other medications or treatments, but their conditions haven't sufficiently improved.