The Hospital has the following critical care beds: 8 coronary care, 7 adult ICU, 6 pediatric ICU, 8 post cardiac surgical unit. The special care baby unit includes the following incubator basinets: 10 level 4 intensive care, 16 level 3 high dependency, and 4 level 2 intermediate dependency. To ensure proper use of these beds, there are strict admission criteria for each of these critical care areas. For example, only patients requiring ventilatory support, cardiac and invasive blood pressure monitoring and intensive medical and nursing care are admitted to the ICU. Further, because of the high demand for these beds, every attempt is made to expedite transfer of these patients to the general wards.As a step-down facility to the intensive care areas, and also to manage seriously ill patients who do not require artificial ventilation, there are the following high dependency units: 4 male and 4 female surgical beds; 4 male and 4 female medical beds; 4 pediatric surgery beds; 4 cardio-thoracic beds; 4 obstetric/gynecological beds; 8 pediatric beds.
CPR AND TRAUMA RESUSCITATION
The Hospital has an emergency alert system whereby adult or pediatric cardiac resuscitation teams can be summoned immediately for life saving measures on a patient who sustains cardio-respiratory arrest. All medical and nursing staff are certified in basic life support, while doctors functioning as team leaders on the resuscitation team are certified in advanced life support. The trauma resuscitation team is paged to assist with patients brought to the Accident and Emergency Department in a critical state consequent to poly-trauma. There is also a Disaster Management plan which can be activated when more than 5 seriously wounded surgical patients who require resuscitation, or 10 critically ill medical cases, are simultaneously brought to the Accident and Emergency Department and more are expected.
OPERATION THEATRE
The Hospital has 9 operation theatres, which are well equipped for the most complex of surgeries such as: open heart surgery for coronary artery bypass graft and transposition of great vessels in newborns, pediatric surgery, separation of conjoined twins, vascular surgery, kidney transplantation, Werthiam’s hysterectomy, laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity, etc. The Theatre Users’ Committee oversees the functioning of the operating rooms, provision of common equipment and instruments, theatre policies, and allocation of theatre time to the different clinical units
