Intensive Care Department
About Al-Salama ICU:
Intensive care by its very nature is complex service, requiring around-the-clock monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and decision-making for individual patients who may require complex care relating to a broad range of acute illnesses and pre-existing conditions in one or more organ systems, including the cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic, liver, kidney, gastrointestinal or any other systems.
The level of sophistication of critical care in terms of technology, conceptual framework and application has grown rapidly in the last two decades and the intensive care units (ICUs) have progressed from "holding areas" for the sickest patients to full-service medical delivery systems, "mini-hospitals" within the hospital.
We in Al-Salama Hospital intensive care department realized that and believed that the innate complexity of the ICU makes organizational structuring of care is an attractive quality measure and a target for performance improvement strategies. In other words, organizational features relating to medical and nursing leadership, communication and collaboration among providers, and approaches to problem-solving may capture the quality of ICU care more comprehensively than do practices related to specific processes of care.
Al-Salama ICU Equipments:
A complete connected set of equipments and devices are accessible for each patient admitted to Al-Salama ICU;
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High quality beds with fair air mattresses to ensure best comfort and safe situation. - Monitors fixed and portable with a special feature for arterial blood pressure observation.
- Mechanical ventilators provide Oxygen therapy systems and satisfy respiratory care needs.
- Arterial line connection for patients with blood pressure profound abnormalities.
- Pneumatic cuff compression for deep venous thrombosis DVT and other problems.
Ancillary equipments and services are available in order to support the performance and achieve maximum efficiency;
- Cath lab and Interventional radiology center for critical catheterization procedures and interventions.
- Haemofiltration device for different indications of continuous renal replacement therapy CRRT and plasma exchange.
- Radiology unit ready to perform various kinds of scanning and imaging 24 hours.
- Laboratory introduces rapid analysis for the potential key parameters 24 hours.
- Blood bank dispenses vital blood and plasma components for urgent need of transfusion.
- ICU ambulance achieves speedy transportation of critically ill patients.
Al-Salama ICU staff:
Alsalama ICU has a highly qualified complete team of intensivists (Clinicians who specialized in critical care medicine) that all of them have a university residency; some are holders for Critical Care Master and PhD. They provide around-the-clock intensive monitoring and treatment of patients seven days a week.
Role of Al-Salama intensivists can be summarized in;
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Diagnose and stabilize critically ill medical and surgical patients with impending or active organ failure or life-threatening problem. - Initiate advanced cardiac life support until the code team arrives, then supervise and support the code team.
- Respond to all respiratory arrests in the health center using a variety of techniques and ventilators.
- Coordinate and organize a treatment plan, hospital course, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for patients.
- Lead patient care rounds daily with the charge nurse, dietician, case management, and respiratory care with the goal to discuss the patient's current medical problems and set the care plan for the day to ensure best practices in place.
- Communicate closely with the admitting physician or appropriate consultant about any significant change in the patient's course, or change in treatment plan.
- Perform a subsequent evaluation of all patients' cases on the service and record the evaluation in the medical record once every twenty-four hours and as needed.
- Participate in the Medical Emergency Team (MET) or Rapid Response Team (RRT) in hospital emergency services.
Al-Salama Critical Care Nurse is a part of a multidisciplinary medical team in which each person contributes expertise the collaborative goal is to optimize patient outcomes. Her activities include assisting intensivists in his risk appraisal, interpretation of diagnostic tests and providing treatment, monitoring and safeguard the quality of care the patient receives.
Al-Salama Critical Care Nurse Plays an important role in assessment of the unit infection rate. She carries out surveillance of nosocomial infections and provides relevant information report. She identifies problems related to infection and reports to infection control committee. Under supervision of clinical pharmacists she plays a role in ensuring the standard practice of medication administration.
