Critical Care

Our highly trained critical care intensivists treat the most severely ill and injured persons in this department. Rahane Hospital has specialist to take comprehensive care of patients going thrimages/resource/critical-care.jpgough major trauma or surgery. The doctors of Rahane Hospital look after the people who require advanced care and monitoring. In fact, the full spectrum of this department is provided by specialists and other medical experts specially trained in critical healthcare and are there at the Hospital 24×7 to serve patients.

These doctors are also fully equipped to deal with all kinds of disease the patient may go through. It does not matter if it’s rare, complex, common or simple. They are highly trained to handle any severe conditions. The specialist here manages chronic symptoms of each specialty, including Neurology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, etc.

What is critical care?

Critical care is medical care for people who have life-threatening injuries and illnesses. It usually takes place in an intensive care unit (ICU). A team of specially-trained health care providers gives you 24-hour care. This includes using machines to constantly monitor your vital signs. It also usually involves giving you specialized treatments.

What happens in a critical care unit?

In a critical care unit, health care providers use lots of different equipment, including:

1. Catheters, flexible tubes used to get fluids into the body or to drain fluids from the body

2. Dialysis machines ("artificial kidneys") for people with kidney failure

3. Feeding tubes, which give you nutritional support

4. Intravenous (IV) tubes to give you fluids and medicines

5. Machines which check your vital signs and display them on monitors

6. Oxygen therapy to give you extra oxygen to breathe inOxygen therapy to give you extra oxygen to breathe in

7. Tracheostomy tubes, which are breathing tubes. The tube is placed in a surgically made hole that goes through the front of the neck and into the windpipe.

8. Ventilators (breathing machines), which move air in and out of your lungs. This is for people who have respiratory failure.