The PMMGMPC Medical Intensive Care Unit is composed of five rooms, one of which is designated as an isolation room. It is a specialized area equipped with the state-of-the-art monitoring, diagnostics and therapeutic devices designed to provide intensive observation, continuous monitoring and care for cardiac and non-cardiac medical and surgical patients who are in unstable condition or who may urgently require treatment on life support systems. The MICU serves as a place for monitoring and care of patients with potential severe physiological instability requiring technical and/or artificial life support.
It is an open MICU, wherein the Primary Attending Physicians are still responsible for the care of their patients who are admitted directly to the MICU or transferred from another unit of the hospital. Critical Care is provided by specially trained ICU teams of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who use their unique expertise and ability to provide intensive resuscitation, ongoing treatment, and monitoring to the hospital’s sickest patients.
MISSION
To provide affordable, accessible and high-quality holistic critical care to patients at risk for or with existing critical illness.
VISION
To be a world class critical care provider that is Patient-centered for the Critically Ill
MICU EQUIPMENT
Ventilators
A Ventilator or “Breathing Machine” is a piece of medical technology that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe or breathing insufficiently. Ventilators are used to support breathing or aid the function of the lungs. The machine forces air into the lungs through a tube inserted into the windpipe (trachea) or using a tightly fitting mask. This breathing support may be used to help get enough oxygen to the body and to remove carbon dioxide. Sometimes ICU patients need support from a ventilator because they are not awake enough or strong enough to breath safely on their own.
Video Laryngoscope
A video laryngoscope is an equipment that enables the health care provider to visualize the vocal cord without any direct line of sight. It minimizes the stress response of the patients who are undergoing intubation and offers high success rates, especially in difficult scenarios.
High Flow Oxygen Machine
It is a machine that provides high-flow oxygen therapy for adult patients with acute respiratory failure. With its warm, humidified constant flow, High Flow Oxygen Therapy improves gas exchange and reduces the work of breathing. It is designed to deliver continuous oxygen therapy up to a maximum flow of 60 L/min.
Monitors
Critically ill patients in the ICU require close monitoring. One way in which many patients in the ICU are monitored is by displaying their “Vital Signs” (heart rate and rhythm, blood pressure, and respiratory rate) on a digital monitor. The ICU care team can see these monitors at the patient’s bedside and at the main unit desk and can react quickly to changes when they occur.
Infusion Pumps
Many of the medications and treatments given in the ICU must be administered directly into the blood stream by use of an intravenous catheter (IV). Continuous flow (infusions) or extra doses (boluses) of these medications can be given by the ICU doctors and nurses using a programmable IV pump. You will often see the nursing staff connecting medications to the IV pumps, programming the doses and attending to them when an alarm sounds.