Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
RICU is a newly commissioned 15-bedded intensive care unit, which has been built to safely care for patients with infectious diseases. The staff are highly skilled to manage all levels of infection and the unit is specifically designed as the admission unit in the event an outbreak of airborne transmitted illness.
All rooms are negative pressure with the latest technology to monitor the patient outside of the room to decrease exposure to health workers without compromising care to the patient.
RICU is also the primary unit for the Nurse led VV ECMO program that was set up to manage severely compromised patients with respiratory failure who were unable to be managed by conventional ventilatory support.
Patient Population: Adults above 14 years of age
Mixed Gender
Hours of Operation: 24 hours / 7 days a week
No of Beds: 15 Beds
Occupancy Rate: 100%
Staff Categories:
Registered Nurse
Patient Care Technician
Primary Diagnosis
Respiratory Failure
Acute Renal Failure (HD/PD)
Metabolic Disorders
Sepsis
+MERS Airborne Isolation Patients
+Covid Airborne Isolation Patient
Multi Organ failure
Primary Procedures
Airway management including ventilation.
Invasive Monitoring.
Vasopressors and Inotropic administration.
Percutaneous Tracheostomy.
CRRT.
ICP/EVD.
V-V ECMO.
Model of Nursing Care
Total Patient Care Utilizing a Partnership Model.