Services - Pediatric Intensive Care Services
The pediatric ICU is a 10 bedded tertiary care unit which
seriously sick children. Facilities available include invasive monitoring and mechanical
ventilation. The patients treated here include critically ill children, with diseases such as
severe asthma, serious infections (malaria, TB, meningitis, Dengue fever etc.) and head
injuries.
A trained, dedicated team is available to retrieve critically ill children from referral
hospitals. The ICU admits on an average 40 children monthly and is run by Pediatric
Intesivist, who has experience in treating critically ill children.
There were 463 admissions from 01.03.2010 till date.
Performance
- Sepsis & septic shock: 62
- Acute Pyogenic Meningitis: 32
- Neurocysticercosis: 6
- TBM: 14
- Head Injuries: 22
- Seizure Disorders: 84
- ICSOL: 6
- Foreign Body Aspirations (Trans – Tracheal & Trans – Esophageal): 7
- Acute viral Myocarditis: 6
- Rheumatic Heart Disease: 9
- Congenital Heart Diseases with Congestive Cardiac Failure: 18
- Acute exacerbation of Bronchial asthma with impending respiratory failure: 35
- Pneumonitis with Interstitial Lung Disease: 112
- ARDS: 9
- Bacterial Peritonitis: 6
- Blunt injury Abdomen: 2
- Hepatic Abscess: 2
- Abdominal Surgical Conditions (Intussusception, Appendicitis, etc.): 118
- Genito – Urinary Conditions (Torsion Testis, etc.): 13
- Acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: 80
- Lympho – Reticular Malignancies: 12
- Severe Dehydration with Dyselectrolytemia: 12
- Complicated Malarias: 19
- Toxidromes: 7
- Diabetic Keto – Acidosis : 18
- Inborn Error of Metabolism confirmed: 2
- Mal – absorption syndromes: 2
