Block
4, Level 5
Tel : 6321 4450 / 6326 6611
Fax : 6321 4453
The department took over the running of the Medical Care
Unit (MICU) from May 1995 with the goals of providing
state of the art Critical Care Medicine.
The MICU has 8 individual rooms each equipped with computerised
physiological monitoring systems. A variety of sophisticated
ventilatory techniques are available including noninvasive
ventilation for acute respiratory failure and pressure
control ventilation for ARDS. Patient types include sepsis,
septic shock, pulmonary oedema and ARDS. A unique feature
of this ICU not found in any other ICU in this country
is the Body Cooling Unit which is used for patients with
Heat Disorders. APACHE II Scoring is used routinely to
monitor patient acuity trends, outcomes and ICU performance.
The unit is staffed by intensivists complemented by residents,
critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists
and pharmacists.
Current ongoing research activities include those on
ICU Outcome, noninvasive ventilation, usuage of pulmonary
artery catheters and weaning from mechanical ventilation.
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