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The hospital is equipped to diagnose and treat medical (including cardiac), surgical, obstetric and gynecology, pediatrics and psychiatry patients. A total of 560 beds, 122 private and 117 semi-private air-conditioned rooms, 251 General Ward beds and 52 special care beds are available in ICU, CCU and NICU. The hospital has 17 main operating ...
Intensive care unit ICU patients often require mechanical ventilation if they have lost the ability to breathe normally.. An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.
A pediatric intensive care unit (also paediatric), usually abbreviated to PICU (/ ˈ p ɪ k j uː /), is an area within a hospital specializing in the care of critically ill infants, children, teenagers, and young adults aged 0–21.
Other ICU needs include airway or ventilator support due to respiratory compromise. The cumulative effects of multiple organ failure, more commonly referred to as multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, also requires advanced care. [4] Patients may also be admitted to the ICU for close monitoring or intensive needs following a major surgery. [5]
APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, [1] one of several ICU scoring systems.It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death.
Patients may be admitted to an HDU bed because they are at risk of requiring intensive care admission, or as a step-down between intensive care and ward-based care. [ 1 ] In 2000 the UK Department of Health issued the Comprehensive Critical Care report, which set out the number of high dependency ("level 2") beds a hospital should have to ...
Urdu, English: Colors: Maroon and White Affiliations: Pakistan Medical and Dental Council [2] [3] University of Health Sciences, Lahore [4] Combined Military Hospital Muzaffarabad [5] International Medical Education Directory [6] College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan [7] University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Website: ajkmc.edu.pk
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Urdu: پاکستان دانش کدہ برائے طبّی سائنس, abbreviated as PIMS) is a research oriented health sciences institute located in Islamabad, Pakistan. [1] It is one of the region's leading tertiary level hospitals which includes 22 medical and surgical specialist centers.