Faculty of Medical Sciences > Critical Care Medicine > In Patient Services
The Department of Critical Care Medicine is running 2 ICUs in the Trauma Centre of King George’s Medical University, Lucknow. The total bed capacity is 36 beds , all equipped with mechanical ventilation. It’s a well-equipped, state of the art ICU with the facilities of Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) , in-house Hemodialysis , Plasma Exchange, Bronchoscopy, Bed-Side Electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring, portable ultrasound machines, high flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) machines and Extra-corporeal membrane oxygen (ECMO) machine.
The department is involved in the management of critically ill patients with multi-organ failures. A diverse group of patients are treated in the ICU likepatients with poly-trauma injuries, critically-ill obstetric patients, patients with suspected poisoning and decompensated patients requiring multi-organ support therapies.
The ICUs of the Department of Critical Care Medicine are supervised by the faculty members. There are senior residents and junior residents who are involved in the training and learning the clinical management of critically ill patients. The ICU is well-staffed with staff nurse to bed ratio of 1:2 , Intensive Care Unit (ICU) technicians, physiotherapists, dialysis technicians, dieticians, and ancillary staff. The role and duties of every team member is clearly defined and followed. A regular feed-back is taken from the patient’s attendant for improvement of the services.