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Critical Care

Head of Department

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is the heart of any hospital. With the recent advances in medicine and patient care, the significance, requirement and scope of intensive care services have phenomenally increased. SMF ICU has been providing services with dedication and compassion since the hospital’s inception (1994). It is a well-respected and well-known unit in Critical Care Circles nationwide.

Milestones

One of the very first well-planned and organised ICUs in the country, manned by qualified intensivists since the 1990s, which was a totally new concept at the time
One of the first ICUs to embrace the concept of Non-Invasive Ventilation in day-to-day critical care practice
One of the first ICUs to integrate microbiology, proctology, and follow infection control practices in ICU care
Introduced the concept of dedicated ICU technicians for better patient care and adopted the practice of 1:1 nursing care in the ICU.
One of the very first units to run an outreach programme since inception for the patients transferred out of the ICU until they are discharged from the hospital – a concept which has recently gained traction
One of the first units selected for teaching critical care medicine

Core Philosophy Of SMF ICU

To provide high quality, affordable critical care emphasising transparency and empathy
To integrate Founder's vision into day-to-day critical care practice

Educational Programmes

One of the first private hospital ICUs to run a National Board-affiliated Critical Care educational programme—DNB Critical Care Medicine (Superspecialty) course—with 2 accredited seats.
ISCCM certified courses

Treatment

Among the first units to introduce the concept of step-down care (Intermediate Care Unit – IMCU), revolutionise interventions like prone ventilation, and integrate bedside ECHO and ultrasonography into mainstream ICU care.

Facilities

Infrastructure

SMF ICU is an 18 bedded unit – 9 ICU beds and 9 IMCU beds
All ICU beds have separate cubicles, each with a separate HVAC and dialysis facility and one with positive and negative pressure isolation
9 IMCU beds with facility for mechanical ventilation required, among which 2 are isolation with dialysis facility
State-of-the-art ventilators (12 ventilators and 17 BiPAps, and one high-flow nasal oxygen. One of the very few units with a high ventilator-to-patient ratio. Other types of equipment like syringe pumps, infusion pumps, defibrillators, dedicated ABG machines

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