Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a multidisciplinary unit that provides care for critically ill infants, children and adolescents upto 18 years of age.
Physicians, nurses and allied medical care professionals who work in our PICU are expert in caring for children with serious and life threatening conditions. They have the knowledge, skill and judgment to quickly assess and treat your child so as to achieve the best possible outcome from critical illness or injury.
Equipped with advanced technology, our multidisciplinary team of qualified & experienced Pediatric & Neonatal Intensivist, Paediatric Cardiologists, Paediatric Nephrologist, Paediatrics Neurologist, Paediatric Hemato-oncologist, Paediatric Surgeon, Paediatric Dietician, Paediatric Physiotherapist and Paediatric trained nurses, improves survival, speeds recovery, minimizes disability and relieves pain and suffering in a caring and respectful manner. Our family-centered care approach ensures that you are kept up-to-date about your child’s condition and receive the information you need to make informed choices about their care.
Technology and Infrastructure
We have state of the art 5 bedded PICU with latest equipment & infrastructure with 1:1 nurse to patient ratio. In PICU our staffs are trained in providing comprehensive care to critically sick children with tender love and make them feel closer to their home. Our PICU have round the clock in house trained & qualified Paediatrics Intensivist who can take care of your children once they are at emergency department of our hospital. Critically sick children are under continuous observation of our trained and qualified nurses who have experience in managing such cases. We treat array of conditions from medical illness like complicated pneumonia, meningoencephalitis, ARDS to surgical conditions like Polytrauma, traumatic brain injury and other surgical illnesses including postoperative care. Our survival rate is comparable to developed countries. Facilities available are as follows
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Conventional and advanced invasive ventilation
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CPAP
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High flow nasal oxygen therapy
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Multipara monitors & infusion pumps
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Invasive haemodynamic monitoring
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Capnography
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Defibrillator
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Cardiac pacemaker
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Round the clock bedside X ray, Sonography and 2 D Echo
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Bedside EEG Monitoring
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Peritoneal Dialysis facility
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In hospital facility for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and Plasmapharesis
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Bedside blood chemistry including ABG
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Round the clock imaging services including MRI and CT .
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Robust back up with State of Art blood bank and other laboratory services.
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Infection control &Surveillance policies
Services
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Management of various complex respiratory and cardiac conditions
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Management of complex congenital conditions.
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IEM & Other Metabolic emergencies
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Neurological emergencies
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Complex endocrine conditions
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Drug overdose & poisoning
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Infections with multiorgan failure
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Haematological malignancies & emergencies
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Management of AKI and renal failure
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Management of Polytrauma
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Postoperative management of neurological & cardiac cases
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Postoperative management of Pediatric surgical cases
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Post Renal transplant care
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Intracranial pressure monitoring
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Total parenteral nutrition
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Point of care bedside laboratory testing