What is it?

The Intensive Care Unit is an area of the clinic where we handle patients with life threatening health problems.

Benefits

• Two reviews are conducted per day, for safe and reliable medical treatments. 

• We have an infection index below international standards.

• Permanent availability of enteral and parenteral nutrition, high and low digestive endoscope and urology services 24 hours a day.
   
• We also have a nephrologist on staff and nursing personnel trained on renal replacement therapy, on call 24 hours a day.
   
• There are at least two physicians on call 24 hours a day through out the year, day and night respiratory therapy service, in addition to daytime coverage of cardiac physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

• Neurological patients are handled 24 hours per day by a clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons, supported by computerized multi-takes axial tomography and angiography equipment.

• We also have invasive and noninvasive cardiology available 24 hours a day with permanent assistance by a cardiovascular surgery team. To all the above we add the permanent assistance by specialists in various areas.

• This department is permanently supported by the Red Cross’ Blood Bank and by the clinical laboratory of the clinic.

Human Resources

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is handled by highly qualified professionals, among which we have specialists in critical medicine and intensive care, with Masters in epidemiology and four Intensive care professionals. Interns, surgeons, anesthesiologists and cardiologists are also part of this human team.

Infrastructure and technology

This department uses state of the art technology to monitor, diagnose and for a variety of procedures. Next to the ICU we have the Intermediate Care Unit (InCU) and the angiography service. This proximity expedites diagnosis and treatments requiring invasive round the clock hemodynamia, in addition to guaranteeing the continuity of processes and therapies.

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