Clinical Team

Critical care specialists at Prabha hospital are dedicated to ensuring the survival of the most critically ill patients. Trained in the best of institutions, these dedicated specialists work 24 X 7 to revive critically ill patients. They also manage critical care units efficiently, ensuring that the whole team of doctors, nurses and paramedics work together, using strict protocols to minimize infections, complications and ensure speedy recovery.

Infection Controls

• Our infection control protocols pertain to a wide spectrum of interventions & have been developed jointly with intensivists & anesthetists
• ICUs – high risk areas for patient where life threatening mistakes & omissions in care can occur.
• Checklist of care should be addressed daily.
• Critically ill patients highly vulnerable to health care associated infection, resulting in significant morbidity & prolonged length of hospital stay.
• Responsibility of every member of the health care team to ensure compliance with hospital and unit infection control policies – like hand-washing before & after examining a patient, use of alcohol hand rubs, use of sterile barriers & disposable gloves, safe disposal of all sharps & patient consumables & traffic control
• Bedside Analysis – checklist use has reduced average length of stay in hospitals (ALOS) & improved infection control indices

Clinical Handovers

• Standardised procedure for clinical handover
  • Enhances patient’s safety by providing vital information at a glance to the care providers
  • Ehances ability of attending staff member to identify potential source of problem
• Transfer of care from physician to physician or nurse to nurse in case of change of location or change of shifts
• Includes accurate information about
  • Patient’s care
  • Treatment and services
  • Verbal order
  • Test results
  • Current condition
  • Recent or anticipated changes

When intensive care is needed

Intensive care is needed if someone is seriously ill and requires intensive treatment and close monitoring, or if they're having surgery and intensive care can help them recover.

Most people in an ICU have problems with 1 or more organs. For example, they may be unable to breathe on their own.

There are many different conditions and situations that can mean someone needs intensive care.

Some common reasons include:

• A serious accident – such as a road accident, a severe head injury, a serious fall or severe burns
• A serious short-term condition – such as a heart attack or stroke
• A serious infection – such as sepsis or severe pneumonia
• Major surgery – this can either be a planned part of your recovery, or an emergency measure if there are complications

What intensive care involves

Patients on an ICU will be looked after closely by a team of ICU staff and will be connected to equipment by a number of tubes, wires and cables.

There will normally be 1 nurse for every 1 or 2 patients

This equipment is used to monitor their health and support their bodily functions until they recover.

Equipment that may be used on an ICU includes:

• A ventilator – A machine that helps with breathing; a tube is placed in the mouth, nose or through a small cut in the throat (tracheostomy)
• Monitoring equipment - Used to measure important bodily functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure and the level of oxygen in the blood
• IV lines and pumps -Tubes inserted into a vein (intravenously) to provide fluids, nutrition and medication
• Feeding tubes -Tubes placed in the nose, through a small cut made in the tummy or into a vein if a person is unable to eat normally
• Drains and catheters -Drains are tubes used to remove any build-up of blood or fluid from the body; catheters are thin tubes inserted into the bladder to drain pee

Someone in an ICU will often be on painkilling medicine and medicine that makes them drowsy (sedatives).This is because some of the equipment used can be uncomfortable.