Critical Care Medicine

What is critical care medicine?

Critical Care Medicine (CCM) is a specialty that involves the management of patients with life threatening, frequently complex medical and surgical illnesses. The CCM physician, is also called an Intensivist in some parts of the world, has expertise in the evaluation and management of these critically ill patients. These patients may have dysfunction or failure of one or more organ systems, like cardiac, pulmonary, neurology, liver and kidney.
 

Fortis Escorts Critical Care programme.

Escorts critical care programme is designed to give services to those patients who are in need of Intensive Care management particularly patients often referred from remote areas where such expertise is not available.

The department of Critical Care Medicine at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is recognized both nationally and internationally as a leader in research and education. The department's mission is to provide an exceptionally high level of critical care & emergency services, and to recruit, maintain, and train a highly qualified staff of health care professionals devoted to the care of the critically ill.
 

Facilities available at Fortis Escorts Critical Care units.

Critical Care Unit at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is equipped to manage critically ill patients involving single or multiple organ systems. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has the highest critical care beds to total bed strength ratio in Delhi & NCR. All beds have latest state of the art monitoring equipment. We also have facilities for organ support like bedside hemodialysis for patients with renal failure, ECMO for ARDS patients, latest generation ventilators with newer modes and other organ support systems.
 

Faculty in the department of Critical Care Medicine.

Critical Care team at the Escorts Heart Institute has 12 members headed by Dr Amit Varma. Dr.Varma is a physician trained in US with fellowship in Critical Care Medicine. He has about 20 years of experience in this field.

Dr Sandeep Dewan is the Consultant in-charge of the unit. He is a trained anesthetist and intensivist with fellowships both from India and abroad. He has a keen interest in the field of Infectious diseases in Critical Care Medicine.