Neuro Critical Care Unit
The Neuro Critical Care Unit (NCCU) specializes in managing critically ill patients with life-threatening conditions that affect the brain, spine, and nervous system, per international standards and guidelines. Conditions that are treated in NCCU include hemorrhagic stroke, including intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain aneurysm rupture, traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, brain infections, acute spinal cord injury, status epilepticus, neuromuscular diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and myasthenia gravis, post complex neuro-interventional or neurosurgical procedures.
Intensivists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons work together with nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, nutritionists, social workers, and case managers as a multidisciplinary team to establish safe patient-family-centered care plans.
The unit has eight specialized, fully monitored beds, and advanced neurological technical capabilities include intracranial pressure monitoring, therapeutic temperature modulation, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring.
Families play a vital role for patients in the NCCU. The team communicates with families regularly, in person or through advanced telecommunication.
NCCU is equipped with advanced monitors and with different organ support modalities
Several quality improvement projects are continuously running in the NCCU to improve our care for patients. Several quality indicators are audited and monitored, such as hand hygiene compliance, central line-associated blood infections, ventilator-associated events, and other universal indicators.