Department of Critical Care Medicine

Before establishment of Department of Critical Care Medicine, critical care unit was managed by Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care under guidance of Dr. Veena Shah and Dr. Guruprasad Bhosale. Started with a small ICU of 10 beds we are currently managing 38 beds in both the campus and will be expanding to more than 85 beds in near future.

The department of critical care medicine, now headed by Dr. Geeta Parikh, looks after critical care units in both campus 1 and 2. We have 3 bedded exclusive post liver transplant ICU and 12 bedded gastroenterology and post-surgical ICU. In campus 2 we are managing existing 18 bedded ICU distributed in triage 1 and 2 and 5 bedded HDU in triage 3.

Critical care unit of IKDRC-ITS has a state of art facility for mechanical ventilation, BIPAP, HFNC and multichannel invasive and non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring and blood gas analysis. We have in house facility of dialysis, SLED, CRRT and plasmapheresis. Every year, more than 2000 patients are admitted in the Critical care unit out of which more than 800 patients require ventilatory support. The department also performs fibreoptic bronchoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose.

The department also runs a fellowship programme for critical care medicine.