Critical Care

Not at all. The idea behind admitting the patient in ICU is to have

• Intense monitoring of vital parameters like blood pressure ,pulse rate, oxygen levels etc.
• Immediate recognition of deterioration of any clinical condition and urgent intervention
• After complex surgeries ,the patient requires close monitoring & interventions like ventilatory support, adequate pain relief ,nutrition, adequate blood & volume replacement. All this helps in stabilization of the patient in the postoperative period with a satisfactory outcome.
• There are many diseases where patients' own respiration is not adequate enough to match the requirement and patients may need transient ventilatory support ( asthma,chronic respiratory conditions like COPD) & patients may get discharged soon.

In many diseases, patients need temporary support till the underlying condition improves.

Not at all! Patients’ consciousness can be affected by a variety of reasons and many unconscious patients regain their consciousness and start responding once the disease is under control. Out of these , few cases may not recover completely but that is in fact the course of the disease. In the initial phase we have to support all the vital functions.

Duration of dialysis therapy is variable. Dialysis therapy is offered to the patient when the kidney fails to function adequately. Many times this kidney dysfunction is reversible and related to the disease which may be extrarenal. In such circumstances,once the disease is controlled ,the kidney recovers and the patient does not require dialysis anymore.

Tracheostomy is required for many reasons. Sometimes it is for prolonged ventilatory support. Once the patient does not need such support, tracheostomy can be closed and the patient can speak.

Most of the time patients are having pre existing infections or poor immunity which puts them at higher risk of getting secondary infections. Our ICU has got stringent infection control policies in place as per the international standards.