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ICU - Intensive Care Unit

• The ICU is highly specified and sophisticated area of The hospital which is specifically designed, staffed, located, furnished and equipped, dedicated to management of critically ill patients, injuries or complications.
• It is a department with dedicated medical, nursing and allied staff. It operates with defined policies; protocols and procedures, having its own quality control, education, training and research programmes.
• It is emerging as a separate specialty and can no longer be regarded purely as part of anaesthesia, medicine, surgery or any other speciality.
• It has to have its own separate team in terms of doctors, nursing personnel and other staff who are tuned to the requirement of the speciality.
• ICUs are designed to prevent cross infection and ICU psychosis.

Intensive-Care Medicine or Critical-Care Medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the provision of life support or organ support systems in patients who are critically ill and who usually require intensive monitoring.

Critical Care units represent the apex of technical advancements in medicine. Such units integrate many specialities and diverse technologies, offering the possibility of survival to patients who would otherwise die. It is therefore obvious that the role of the Intensive Care services are vital and crucial to a tertiary care hospital, as the Critical Care unit contributes immensely to survival of acutely and critically ill patients.

There is a dedicated team of doctors involved in providing critical care services at Sikar Hospital. These specialists, who have special training in the care of critically ill patients, work closely with other specialists like, surgeons of different specialties, paediatricians and other specialists in the hospital.