Intensive Care Units or ICUs in Hospitals evoke mixed responses from people. While some patients and families express concern over the costs, many patients acknowledge the high level of care and specialist treatment that ICUs offer.
ICUs are increasingly discussed in recent years, yet, ICUs have a long history. Legendary nurse Florence Nightingale wrote about having a separate specialized unit to care for patients recovering from surgery, as early as the mid-19th century. But the real credit for formally establishing an ICU goes to Dr. W.E Dandy of the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA, in 1927. During World War II and the polio epidemic of late 1940s, ICUs started becoming a common feature in American hospitals.
ICUs are indispensable
Between the 1950s and 1990s, ICUs or CCUs (Critical Care Units) were largely used to care for premature babies, very sick patients and those with post-surgical complications. But since the 1990s, advancements in Medicine and Healthcare combined with newer diseases being diagnosed, has created a compelling need for ICUs.
Benefits provided by an ICU/CCU
In the US, the Leapfrog Group along with the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) published guidelines for regulating the functioning of ICUs, and since then has been documenting the benefits ICU/CCUs bring, based on real cases. As per the same, ICUs/CCUs accomplish the following (source: National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI))
Specialized Education for ICU/CCU
Considering the necessity and benefits of an ICU/CCU, regulatory bodies like the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in the US and the Medical Council of India (MCI) In India have deigned courses to develop doctors who are specialized in Intensive Care, called Intensivists. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) offers courses such as IDCCM and IFCCM for this branch of medicine that is now considered a super-speciality.
Members of a Critical Care Team
A Critical Care team is a multidisciplinary team made up of specialists with training in a specific branch of medicine combined with specialization or training in intensive care.
Our experience with ICU/CCU
Kauvery Hospital maintains a CCU in all its branches across Tamil Nadu. The expertise behind the intensive care and our friendly, empathetic approach towards patients or their family members has been highly appreciated by them, time and again.
Conclusion
In recent years, doctors and hospitals have been educating patients and family members on the cost and healthcare benefits of a CCU, to negate wrong perceptions around ICU/CCU. Needless to say, ICUs/CCUs add a lot of value and take patient-care to a higher level.
Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.
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