State-of-the-Art Facilities

The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has been in charge of running the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) on Outram Campus since May 1995.

The MICU has 8 individual rooms, each equipped with computerized physiological monitoring systems. A variety of sophisticated ventilatory techniques are available including non-invasive ventilation (NIV), airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) and high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). Another unique feature of this ICU not found elsewhere in this country is the Body Cooling Unit, which is used for patients with heat related disorders. 

A newer expansion facility MICU (2) that features state-of-the-art facilities and high end technology to better take care of critically ill patients, begun formal operations in the last quarter of 2019.

The MICU is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of intensivists, residents, critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. 

The Medical Intermediate Care Area (MICA) is also staffed by intensivists who take care of critically ill patients who do not yet need invasive mechanical ventilation. The premise comprising 10 beds, also complements MICU in providing intermediate step-down care for patients with critical illness.

VV ECMO Team

In 2017, our unit established the first dedicated Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VV ECMO) Team in the country. This team is led by intensivists and manages patients with severe lung failue who need VV ECMO. These intensivists have a special interest in Extracorporeal Life Support, and have been trained in this field in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Korea.

We have a retrieval team from National Heart Centre Singapore that is capable of initiating Extracorporeal Life Support for patients at referring hospitals and transporting them to SGH.