Posted: 2007-08-16

Adult Intensive Care Unit

Introduction

In this department are found hospital patients whose clinical conditions (generally delicate or very serious) call for close supervision and intensive treatment by qualified personnel around the clock, in order to reestablish deteriorated organic functions and/or treat multiple factors which put health and life at risk.

Information

The Intermediate Care Unit has a system of remote wireless monitoring (telemetry) which is observed 24 hours a day by Adult Intensive Care specialists, and immediate access to necessary emergency response teams. Both areas are attended by physicians and nurses who specialize in caring for patients in serious or critical condition.

Equipment

The units are equipped with state-of-the-art technology encompassing everything from the most basic monitors to the most advanced (electrocardiography, respiratory, oxygenation, etc.); as well as all equipment and supplies necessary for addressing urgent and critical situations: endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, external and transvenous pacemakers, etc.

The critical care area has 9 Intensive Therapy modules and 7 for Intermediate Therapy. Two of the Intensive Therapy modules are isolated from the others, with an independent air conditioning system and positive/negative air pressure systems, in order to attend patients whose conditions (transplants, burns, immunosuppression, etc.) require strict isolation without losing Intensive Therapy monitoring. The Adult Intensive Therapy Unit maintains a one-to-one nurse-patient ratio, which along with optimizing the way orders and general patient management are carried out, reduces the incidence of hospital-acquired infections.

Staff

Dr. Sergio H. López Estupiñán
Pulmonologist

Hours
24 hours a day, 365 days a year

Telephones

52 (33) 38.48.2156 and 38.48.4000 ext. 2116