ICU Department

The name ICU (Intensive care unit) has always given everyone shivers. Whenever someone says ICU, there are so many tubes going inside patients with zillions of wires and complicated leads placed around and over semi or unconscious patients who look as if they won’t survive! Some feel it’s a place where infections are there and one has to wear shoe covers and masks else they would contract serious infections. Intensive Care Units is a place where millions of lives are saved across the world, but it can be a nightmare and the worst experience of an individual and his/her relatives.

ICUs’ are named differently in different hospitals- Critical Care Unit, Intensive Therapy Unit, etc. The biggest challenge our society faces is their unawareness about ICU processes and protocols and innumerable myths and misconceptions.

“ ICU is meant for sick patients only and in fact, every hospital is short of ICU beds and many times critically ill patients are waiting in the emergency to get an ICU bed allocated. Sometimes we may have a false belief that our patient does not require ICU but we must remember that there are set criteria for ICU admission which all tertiary health care centres adhere to. An alert patient with a recent episode of fit requires ICU admission"

The name ICU (Intensive care unit) has always given everyone shivers. Whenever someone says ICU, there are so many tubes going inside patients with zillions of wires and complicated leads placed around and over semi or unconscious patients who look as if they won’t survive! Some feel it’s a place where infections are there and one has to wear shoe covers and masks else they would contract serious infections. Intensive Care Units is a place where millions of lives are saved across the world, but it can be a nightmare and the worst experience of an individual and his/her relatives.

ICUs’ are named differently in different hospitals- Critical Care Unit, Intensive Therapy Unit, etc. The biggest challenge our society faces is their unawareness about ICU processes and protocols and innumerable myths and misconceptions.

“ ICU is meant for sick patients only and in fact, every hospital is short of ICU beds and many times critically ill patients are waiting in the emergency to get an ICU bed allocated. Sometimes we may have a false belief that our patient does not require ICU but we must remember that there are set criteria for ICU admission which all tertiary health care centres adhere to. An alert patient with a recent episode of fit requires ICU admission”

“The name ICU (Intensive care unit) has always given everyone shivers. Whenever someone says ICU, there are so many tubes going inside patients with zillions of wires and complicated leads placed around and over semi or unconscious patients who look…"