General Intensive Care Unit
General ICU specializes in caring, diagnosing, and treating patients with acute illnesses. The unit consists of 14 single beds. It uses an array of enhanced physiological monitoring systems, organ-supportive therapies, and complex treatments that necessitate a high staff-to-patient ratio of a highly-skilled, multi-professional team.
This team consists of ICU consultants, critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, clinical pharmacists, clinical nutritionists, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, and social workers to provide the highest level of care to critically ill patients and their families
Families play a vital role for patients in (GICU). The medical team communicates with families regularly through face-to-face or video calls.
Several quality improvement projects are performed in the GICU to improve the care of patients.