Critical Care

With several advances in medical care, critical care has emerged as crucial and indispensable clinical speciality in the field of medical care. We, at MGM Hospital Vashi, have one of the best critical care units in Navi Mumbai. Our critical care unit is a combination of multidisciplinary intensive care units.

At MGM Hospital Vashi we believe in standardized protocols, infection control practices and clinical pathways. We have ongoing DNB Critical Care programme and we also emphasize a lot on staff education, training, and academics.

We have been ranked one of the best critical care units at regional as well as national level as per Times Of India ranking. Our critical care team comprises of 24 X 7 available, highly skilled and efficient, specialists, intensivists, well trained nursing staff and paramedics. We believe in evidence based, protocolized approach as per international standards.

Our team approach has made us achieve best door to needle time, door to balloon time and we also have a splendid success record of primary angioplasty in heart attack cases. Patients undergoing major/ supra major surgeries and/or surgical patients with preexisting multiple comorbidities and complicated high risk obstetric patients are managed in critical care.

Our multidisciplinary team approach helps manage life threatening emergencies as well as rare and complicated diseases successfully.

Highlights

  • As per the latest Times of India survey, we have been ranked as the 7th best critical care units in Mumbai.
  • We have successfully thrombolysed a number of stroke patients well within stipulated time courtesy to our dedicated stroke team.
  • We are very proud of our skilled and well coordinated, dedicated code blue team which has breathed life in good number of cardiac arrest patients. Our survival to discharge in post cardiac arrest cases is comparable with international benchmarks.

Services

Modern Age Systems
A synergy of technology and expertise to deliver optimum results
Surgical Patients
Patients with preexisting multiple comorbidities and complicated obstetric patients are also managed in critical care
4 intensive care units
Includes 46 well equipped critical care beds
Bedside procedures
Procedures like tracheostomy, gastro-intestinal scopy, IABP (Intra Aortic balloon Pump) and temporary pacemaker insertion
Bedside haemodialysis
Facility along with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is an add on
Counselling sessions
Regular counselling sessions for patient’s relatives is an integral part of our care process
Fully Automated Beds

Equipped with multipara monitors including advanced haemodynamic monitoring, dedicated pendant, ventilator facility, central oxygen supply

Isolation rooms
Positive pressure isolation rooms are utilized for specialized care of immuno-compromised and post organ transplant patients. Negative pressure isolation rooms are used to manage patients with communicable diseases requiring airborne precautions. Each isolation room has dedicated haemodialysis port.
Critical Care Services

To cardiac, surgical, medical, obstetric and paediatric emergencies and any condition that needs continuous and strict monitoring

Advanced pathology and microbiology laboratories, radiology, physiotherapy and nutrition

There is provision for point of care testing along with bedside radiological imaging for prompt management of critical ill patients

Advanced pathology and microbiology laboratories, radiology, physiotherapy and nutrition

There is provision for point of care testing along with bedside radiological imaging for prompt management of critical ill patients

Technology & Infrastructure

Critical Care Tech
Our critical care department consists of ICUs dedicated to cardiac, medical, surgical & transplant patients.
  • Multimodality monitoring including ECG, oxygen saturation, invasive and non- invasive blood pressure monitor, EtCO2, cardiac output monitoring etc.
  • Bedside X-ray, 2D ECHO (trans-thoracic as well as trans-oesophageal), EEG, Sonography and doppler studies.
  • Sophisticated ventilators for invasive as well as non invasive ventilation.
  • High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) therapy
  • Bedside SLED, hemodialysis, plasma exchange facilities
  • IABP, trans-cutaneous and trans-venous pacing, pulmonary arterial catheter
  • CRRT: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
  • Resuscitation equipments, Defibrillators, advanced airway devices and well maintained crash carts in every unit
  • 24 hour support of blood storage unit, pharmacy, pathology, microbiology, 128 slice CT scan and 3 Tesla MRI machine
Our Specialists
FAQs
Which conditions need critical care?
Patients who require close monitoring and organ support need Critical care. For example, patients having heart attack, stroke (paralysis), convulsions, severe infection, kidney failure, liver failure, poisoning, trauma, pneumonia, asthma exacerbation need monitoring and care in Critical Care Unit.
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.
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.
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 along with improvement in breathing.