About the I.C.U.

Under medical supervision, the I.C.U. has a trained and well-experienced team to handle the most severe and critical medical cases.

The main medical cases handled by this service are:

• Respiratory distress or acute dyspnea requiring mechanical ventilation
• Acute asthma attack, COPD
• Pulmonary embolism with hemodynamic instability
• Hypoxia and hypercapnia
• Shock requiring treatment
• Hypo or hyperglycemia complicated by mental alteration, hemodynamic instability, respiratory failure, or severe acidosis
• Myxedema with hemodynamic instability
• Severe pancreatitis
• Severe hemorrhage with hypotension
• Epileptic crisis
• Cranial trauma with or without intracranial/subarachnoid hemorrhage requiring neurological monitoring
• Renal failure
• Metabolic, anoxic, or toxic coma
• Meningitis with impaired consciousness
• Brain death
• Hypokalemia or hyperkalemia with arrhythmia
• Hypo or hypernatremia with impaired consciousness
• Drowning
• Electrocution
• Severe intoxication
• Placement of a central venous catheter
• Insertion of a hemodialysis catheter
• Acute dialysis session
• Acute and chronic renal (kidney) failure