Emergency treatment

Emergency & Ambulance Service

Medical emergencies are increasing at an exponential rate every day. Every Indian hospital encounters an increasing number of acute cases in the form of-

• Trauma
• Medical
• Surgical
• Gynaecological
• Paediatric emergencies

Patiala heart institute is well-equipped with the most advanced technologies and equipment. The staff, nurses and physicians work round the clock to deal with all levels of medical emergencies. The hospital is equipped with highly advanced emergency room, highly experienced doctors, paramedics and staff nurse who are versatile in dealing with all sorts of medical emergencies.

Patiala heart institute provides the highest quality and technologically advanced emergency medical care-

Ambulance Services

We run state-of-the-art ambulances, which has an inbuilt ICU service with a transport ventilator, multipara monitoring, emergency drugs, oxygen facility, and necessary equipment. It is being managed by ACLS providers / trained paramedics.

Triage

The triage is an area where the patients are segregated based on the severity of the emergency and thereafter directed to appropriate areas of care. A triage is staffed by a resident in the emergency medicine along with a paramedic and a staff nurse who are trained adequately.

Emergency / ICU services

At Patiala heart institute, we have state-of-art ER, managed by MD (Emergency Medicine) physicians who are capable of managing all kinds of emergencies. Also, we have the Secretary for Society for Emergency Medicine, India who happens to be the convener of academic programs across the country.
The highly advanced Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is well-equipped and is managed by 24/7 intensivists trained in ICU with DM / Fellowship degrees in critical care management who are capable to manage critically ill patients.
The services and equipment include - a well-equipped ER/ICU with ventilators, defibrillators, resuscitation cots, ABG facility, emergency kits, haemodialysis, ECMO, MARS. The academic programs include DNB, Fellowship in Critical Care and Masters in Emergency Medicine (MEM).

Critical Care

Emergency care does not begin and end in the emergency room, as emergencies may arise anywhere. Hence the need for coverage from pre-hospital care till the patient’s transfer to definitive care is the ICU. The 24/ 7 critical care area is managed by consultants who have completed DM / Fellowship in Critical Care.

Special Services

Patiala heart institute is one of the best Emergency care hospitals as it has in-house residents in all the departments - Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medicine, Pulmonology, Nephrology, Urology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Vascular Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Gastroenterology - Medical and Surgical covered by consultants who stay in the vicinity of the hospitals.

Facilities

Our emergency room comprises separate resuscitation bays, which are prioritized, and each emergency room has a decontamination room - for managing poison cases. We also have an isolation room - to limit the spread of contagious diseases, an emergency ward and emergency OT’s. The emergency is managed by specialists in emergency medicine (who have completed MD in emergency) along with trained residents in emergency with a back up by critical care physicians which include all services.