Intensive Care/ Critical Care

At BIMS Hospital, 24X7 care is provided to all our patients, keeping in mind patient dignity and ethical practice. Holistic care is ensured by our team of critical care experts who use a multidisciplinary approach. The emergency care department, ICU and ICCU at BHAVNAGAR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES are fully equipped with all basic facilities at affordable charges.

WHAT IS CRITICAL CARE?

Critical care (also known as intensive care) is the multiprofessional healthcare specialty that cares for patients with acute, life-threatening illness or injury. Most of us will experience a critical illness or injury, either as patient, family member or friend of a patient.

Critical care can be provided wherever life is threatened –at the scene of an accident, in an ambulance, in a hospital emergency room, or in the operating room, most critical care today, however, is delivered in highly specialized intensive care units (ICU).  Various terminologies like critical care unit (CCU), intensive therapy unit (ITU), coronary care unit (CCU) may be used to describe such services in a hospital.

Critical care is provided by multiprofessional team of highly experienced and professional physicians, nurses, respiratory care technicians, pharmacists and other allied health professionals who use their unique expertise, ability to interpret important therapeutic information, access to highly sophisticated equipment and the services of support personnel to provide care that leads to the best outcome for the patient.

BIMS HOSPITAL Intensive Care unit is one of the biggest units of private hospitals in Bhavnagar, having 18 beds (including two Isolation) on the same floor with a central monitoring system and it has a moderately large sterilized area equipped with specialized, technical and monitoring equipment needed to take care of critically ill patients. We have a separate counseling room where doctors can counsel the patient’s relatives who have the physical and emotional impact of critical illness or accidental illness of their dear ones. At BIMS we have a dedicated waiting lounge for relatives of ICU patients.

At BIMS, the Hospital Team of ICU comprises several academic disciplines or professional specialized doctors and specialists trained in providing critical care for patients with a variety of medical, surgical, and trauma conditions, highly skilled intensive care nurses, respiratory therapists, care managers, physical and occupational therapists. Our ICU is equipped with 8- ventilators, multipara monitors per bed, dialysis machine, defibrillator, HFNC machines, infusion pumps, IABP machine, etc… all life-saving equipment in enough quantity.

Our ICU is managed by a team of intensivist doctors led by experienced Fellowship trained Dr. Gopal Parmar. Apart from the round the clock intensivist, we have a team of trained medical officers, nursing staff & technician staff to take ultimate care of critically ill patients. Our ICU care is backed up by a team of full-time super-specialists like cardiologists, nephrologists, neuro physicians, neurosurgeons & all specialists to manage any type of medical or surgical patients.

To support ICU care, we have all sorts of diagnostic and therapeutic tertiary care available within BIMS Hospital like Angioplasty, Dialysis, MRI, CT Scan, X-Ray, USG, Laboratory, etc…Over and above critical care inside the hospital, BIMS Hospital has its own “ICU AMBULANCE ON WHEEL” with a ventilator facility for the transfer of critical patients.

Following are some critical conditions for which BIMS Hospital is providing care at ICU.

SURGICAL CARE

• Patients who are severely injured in an accident (vehicular accidents, industrial accidents, etc…)
• Patients who undergo very invasive surgery, complex spinal surgery, or who have poor outcomes after surgery
• Acute surgical illness such as a burst appendix or strangulated hernia, Intestine Infection perforation
• Complex obstetrics and Gynecological Surgery
• Patient with complex Head and Faciomaxillary injuries
• Polytraumatized patients management

MEDICAL CARE

• People with serious infections (Blood infections, lung infection, brain infection, Drug-resistant infections, etc…)
• Patients with respiratory failure or people who have trouble breathing on their own and require a ventilator to breathe for them
• Acute Paralysis attack
• Cases of Poisoning
• Lung problems
• Multiorgan failure syndrome
• Major trauma
• Severe burns etc…

CARDIAC CARE

• Heart problems like heart attacks (Myocardial Infarction), People with acute coronary syndrome
• Severe heart failure
• Patients who have recently undergone interventional cardiac procedures or cardiothoracic surgery