When people face serious health emergencies, they often rely on the Department of Advanced Critical Care at KIMS Hospitals, Electronic City. Our expert intensive care team - including doctors, nurses and support staff - stays prepared 24/7 to provide immediate care and treatment to patients requiring specialised attention.
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at KIMS Hospitals in Electronic City brings together skilled doctors and nurses. Our team, known for its heart care and clinical research efforts, uses modern equipment to handle complex heart cases. They treat hospitalised heart patients with advanced methods like 3D echocardiography and devices designed to assist heart function.
A certified cardiologist heads the team. Skilled specialists and nurses trained in heart care work alongside them. The team works to provide best treatment and positive outcomes. They also support patients' families and loved ones. The CICU has private rooms with individual bathrooms. Each room connects to a family area with sofa beds so relatives can stay overnight if needed. It also has a cosy waiting area where families can use a consulting room to have private discussions with the care team. The CICU’s design makes it easier for the staff to provide skilled care in a kind and supportive setting that encourages healing. Patients receive excellent critical care, which boosts their recovery chances and helps them regain physical strength after leaving the CICU and hospital. The team works alongside rehab therapists, social workers and palliative care specialists to help patients and their families find the support they need to return to daily routines at home or on the job.
Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (NSICU)
The Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit puts patient care at the center. A dedicated team includes board-certified neuro-intensivists, neurocritical care nurses, trainees, and advanced care providers. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, nutritionists, and case managers also play important roles. Neurocritical care staff remain available at all times. They work with leading neurosurgeons, stroke experts, interventional neuroradiologists and epileptologists to address any urgent neurological or neurosurgical issues.
We prioritise giving patients expert and compassionate care for those facing conditions like subarachnoid haemorrhage, strokes, brain and spinal tumours, comas, subdural haematomas, intracerebral haemorrhages, seizures that are hard to control or long-lasting, neuro-infections, spinal cord injuries and other similar medical concerns. The team relies on modern neuromonitoring tools, neuroimaging techniques, EEG and point-of-care ultrasound to deliver high-quality neurocritical care. To advance treatment methods, we participate in clinical trials across multiple centers, conduct investigator-led studies, and collaborate with other organisations to find better solutions for severe neurological conditions.
Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)
The Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit known as CTICU, treats people recovering from procedures on the heart or chest. A group of intensivists and heart surgeons offers advanced care to those with severe issues in the heart, lungs, or chest. These experts specialise in areas like cardiac anesthesiology, cardiothoracic surgery, and critical care medicine. Their work provides life-saving medical assistance. The care team includes more than doctors. Nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, breathing therapists, and social workers all play essential roles in helping patients heal.
Total Artificial Hearts (TAHs)
The CTICU has the certification needed to handle heart and lung transplants along with left and right ventricular assist devices such as LVADs and RVADs. These devices give artificial heart support to help patients regain enough strength to return home while living with a TAH.
Heart Failure Consult Services
A team of cardiologists leads the heart failure consult service, which patients across the hospital can access. These doctors work with CTICU intensivists to care for ill patients. This includes individuals living with artificial hearts or LVADs or patients waiting for or recovering from heart transplants. The team continues to stay engaged in their care even after they leave the hospital.
Nursing Care
The nursing team provides care based on what each patient needs most. At KIMS Hospitals in Electronic City, our focus is to give the best nursing care to you. They run programs to train nurses and certify them to manage advanced cardiac conditions. Nursing educators, who have plenty of experience, guide these training efforts. Over half of the nurses in the CTICU already have certifications in advanced cardiac care.
Nurses here are skilled in using complex tools, including machines like inhaled nitric oxide devices, LVADs and TAHs. In the CTICU, the team helps patients recover after major surgeries like open-heart or intricate chest procedures. They handle advanced heart and blood-flow monitors and take care of patients who need equipment like ECMO devices, ventricular assist machines, and artificial hearts.
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Patients who recover from surgeries such as vascular, orthopaedic, urologic, gynaecology-obstetrics, thoracic, transplants, or general operations usually stay in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to be observed. This ICU works as a closed unit, and a critical care specialist called an intensivist leads the team around the clock. Every doctor on the team holds recognised certification in critical care. They are supported by fellows in critical care, residents in surgery and anaesthesia and advanced care providers. Nurses here focus on following treatment plans while giving you personalised care and attention.
We also work with specialists from other departments like:
- Breathing therapy
- Medicine management
- Food and diet support
- Recovery and physical therapy
- Patient care coordination
- Comfort and end-of-life care
The Care We Focus On
We work hard to give care that revolves around the patient. This means we also support the patient’s loved ones with kindness and dignity. We listen to both you and your family, who remain part of all key decisions about treatment. Our care follows proven methods and organised systems using rules shaped by global standards but adjusted to fit the Indian environment.
- Developed pathways help patients get off ventilators more.
- Social workers and palliative care teams visit patients to check on their well-being.
- Recovery includes regular physical and occupational therapy sessions.
- Specialists assist patients using feeding tubes to create nutrition plans.
- Tracheostomy procedures happen right at the bedside for efficiency.
- Advanced hemofiltration therapy is available to support kidney function.
Critical Care Research
Research plays a key role in driving healthcare improvements and innovation. In the Surgical ICU, efforts focus on studies that improve patient care. With approval from ethical committees, we participate in clinical trials to test medicines, devices, diagnostic techniques, and delivery systems.
Critical Care Education
We train the next generation of doctors by sharing knowledge. Our consultants teach medical residents, students, and advanced care providers.
Focused Surgical ICU Support
- Central Venous Access Service (CVAS): This team manages things like triple-lumen catheters, PICC lines, and dialysis catheters.
- Nutrition Support Team: Critical care pharmacy experts run a year-round program to offer parenteral nutrition.
Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Every year, the Medical Intensive Care Unit, or MICU, treats patients dealing with serious health issues such as liver disease, respiratory failure, and sepsis. Specialists in pulmonary and critical care medicine - called intensivists - guide the MICU team.
Team-based Care
In the MICU, doctors work with a group consisting of critical care nurses, patient care associates, respiratory and physical therapists, as well as social workers and case managers. The group gathers each week to review and discuss the status of current patients in the unit. The MICU also offers services to help patients and families, including counselling, case management support, and spiritual care. We work alongside emergency medicine specialists and take part in the PETAL network along with other research funded by the NIH.
Transplant Intensive Care Unit
The Transplant ICU focuses on caring for people needing transplants of the liver, kidney, pancreas, small bowel, or multiple organs. These patients have weaker immune systems and risk catching infections. To protect them, we offer positive isolation rooms.
Our team works alongside experts from:
- The Transplant Institute
- Respiratory therapy
- Nutrition
- Rehabilitation and occupational therapy
- Pharmacy
- Chaplaincy
- Social work
- Case management
- Palliative care services