Overview

Over the years , critical care has emerged as crucial and indispensable clinical speciality in the field of medical care. Critical care caters to seriously ill patient population , who require life/organ support in the form of ventilator in cases of respiratory compromise,dialysis for kidney failure,drug support and intensive monitoring in haemodynamically unstable patients etc.
We,at MGM Hospital, are having one of the best critical care units in Navi Mumbai. Our critical care unit is a combination of multidisciplinary intensive care units. We have been ranked one of the top critical care units in Mumbai as per Times Of India ranking. Our critical care team comprises of highly skilled and efficient specialists/ intensivists, well trained nursing staff and paramedics.

  Services

    • Cardiac Care Unit (CCU): it comprises of 10 dedicated beds for cardiac patients which include patients having heart attack, heart failure, heart rhythm disturbances along with post bypass and valvular surgeries. Proximity to cardiac cath lab and cardiac OT facilitates better patient care, safety and management of cardiac patients.
    • Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU): this unit consist of 12 beds dedicated to surgical and trauma patients requiring intensive monitoring and care. Patients undergoing major/ supra major surgeries and/or surgical patients with preexisting multiple comorbidities and complicated obstetric patients are managed in this unit.
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU): Equipped with 12 beds, this ICU caters to medical patients with life threatening illnesses like stroke, sepsis, complicated malaria, dengue, pneumonia and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome.
    • Isolation Unit: we are having 2 positive pressure isolation rooms which are meant for specialized care of immuno-compromised and post organ transplant patients.
    • We understand the stress and trauma, the patients and relatives go through; hence we believe in giving psycho-social support through out the care.

  Achievements

    • As per Times of India survey, we have been ranked as the 7th best critical care units in Mumbai.
    • We routinely manage life threatening emergencies as well as rare and complicated diseases successfully.
    • We have achieved best door to needle time, door to balloon time as well as we have splendid success record of primary angioplasty in Heart Attack cases.
    • We have successfully thrombolysed stroke patients well within stipulated time courtesy to our dedicated stroke team.
    • We are very proud of our skilled and well coordinated code blue team which has breathed life in good number of cardiac arrest patients.
    • At MGM, we believe in standardised protocols, infection control practices and clinical pathways. We have ongoing IDCCM programme and we also emphasize a lot on staff education, training, and academics.

  Technology & Infrastructure

    • Multimodality monitoring including ECG, oxygen saturation, invasive and non- invasive blood pressure monitor, EtCO2, cardiac output monitoring etc.
    • Bedside X-ray, 2D ECHO, EEG, Sonography and doppler studies.
    • Sophisticated ventilators for invasive as well as non invasive ventilation.
    • Bedside SLED, hemodialysis, plasma exchange facilities.
    • IABP, trans-cutaneous and trans-venous pacing, pulmonary arterial catheter.
    • Resuscitation equipments, Defibrillators, advanced airway devices and well maintained crash carts in every unit.
    • 24 hour support of blood storage unit, pharmacy, pathology, 64 slice CT scan and 3 Tesla MRI machine.

  FAQs:

Q:Which conditions need critical care?

Patients who are not stable are to be treated in icu. Instability can be in the form of low/ high blood pressure, breathlessness, excessive drowsiness etc.

Patients having heart attack, stroke (paralysis), convulsions, severe infection, kidney failure,pneumonia, asthma exacerbation need monitoring and care in icu, also post -surgical patients who have undergone major surgery or having serious co-morbidities.

Q: What are the parameters monitored in critical care?

Heart rate and rhythm, BP (non-invasive and invasive), oxygen saturation, urine output, neuro-observation, central venous pressure, cardiac output etc.

Q: When is the patient put on ventilator?

Patient is put on the ventilator when he/she is not able to maintain the oxygenation, is in respiratory distress, not in proper conscious state to protect the airway or prone for aspiration, post major surgeries patient may need elective ventilatory support.

Q:When can be the patient removed from the ventilator?

Patient is weaned from the ventilator after resolution of the primary problem and he/she is conscious, able to protect the airway alongwith improvement in breathing.

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