Clinical: ICU

At Bhaktivedanta Hospital the Intensive Care Unit has been upgraded to International Standards, equipped to treat all kinds of cardiac and Non-Cardiac diseases.

The Multipara Monitors give the intensivist (the doctor-in-charge) information starting from the pulse to the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) – a crucial parameter required in the management of serious patients. These monitors are also able to records information, specially the cardiac rhythms of the patients that enable the intensivist a retrospective study of the case.

The control monitor is an essential factor in the ICU enabling the Intensivist to monitor every single patient just sitting at his/her desk.

ICU is now equipped to treat all critically ill cases from severe heart failing, complete heart block (requiring temporary pacing), chronic kidney diseases, sever sepsis, COPD’s, multisystem involvement requiring invasive monitoring like Intrareterial Blood Pressure (IABP) or PCWP The ventilators are also standard ones with the capacity to provide invasive as well as non-invasive ventilation.

The ICU is managed by a senior intensivist Dr. Vivek Dubey, with more than nine years of experience in this field. Post-graduates in the field of medicine and anesthesia assist him. Staff is well trained, with repeated training provided to the nurses headed by sister Sunita.

The ICU is presently centrally air-conditioned with the air circulation being recycled every 6 hrs, which preventing stagnation and chances of nosocomial (Hospital acquired) infections.

Consultants Serving ICU are: