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Understanding Critical Care and Intensive Care Units(ICUs)

Understanding Intensive Care Units(ICUs)

Critical care, also known as intensive care, is a specialized level of medical care provided to patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses or injuries. The goal of critical care is to stabilize and manage the patient’s condition and prevent further deterioration.

An intensive care unit (ICU) offers 24-hour care provided by specially-trained healthcare providers, including monitoring your vital signs constantly with machines.

A person who suffers from a life-threatening illness or injury, such as:

A person who suffers from a life-threatening illness or injury, such as:

  • Severe burns
  • COVID
  • Heart attack & heart failure
  • Kidney failure
  • People recovering from certain major surgeries
  • Respiratory failure
  • Sepsis
  • Severe bleeding
  • Serious infection
  • Serious injuries such as from car crashes fall, and shootings
  • Stroke 
  • Shock

An Overview of the Different Procedures Performed by General Surgeons

Appendectomy

removal of the appendix

Colectomy

removal of part or all of the colon

Gastrectomy

removal of part or all of the stomach

Breast biopsy

removal of tissue from the breast for laboratory testing

Mastectomy

removal of all or part of the breast

Thyroid and parathyroid surgery

removal of the thyroid gland or parathyroid gland

Hernia repair

repair of a hernia (a protrusion of abdominal tissue through a weakness in the abdominal wall)

Colon resection

removal of part of the colon

Adrenalectomy

removal of one or both adrenal glands

Splenectomy

removal of the spleen

Equipment and Support in a Critical Care

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

  • Fluids are injected into or drained from the body using catheters
  • Kidney failure patients use dialysis machines (“artificial kidneys”)
  • Feeding tubes give you nutritional support.
  • Fluids and medications can be administered through intravenous (IV) tubes
  • Machines that check your vital signs and display them on monitors
  • Oxygen therapy gives you the extra oxygen to breathe in
  • Tracheostomy tubes, which are breathing tubes. In order to insert the tube, a surgically made hole is made through the front of the neck and into the windpipe.
  • For people with respiratory failure, ventilators (breathing machines) move air into and out of their lungs. Many of these machines can help you stay alive, but they can also increase your risk of infection.

Having an advance directive can be helpful if you are unable to communicate in a critical care unit. Healthcare providers and family members can use it to make important decisions, including those regarding end-of-life care.

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Phone: +91-9010922255
Opening Hours: Mo-Fr: 07:00-23:00h

Address:

Huda Trade Center, Lingampally, Serilingampalle (M), Telangana 500019

Phone:

+91-9010922255

Opening Hours:

Mo-Fr: 07:00-23:00h

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