Under the medical supervision of Dr. Joyce Habbouch, 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 respiratory assistance with mechanical ventilation
• Acute asthma attack, COPD
• Pulmonary embolism with hemodynamic instability
• Hypoxia and hypercapnia
• Shock requiring treatment
• Hypo or hyperglycemia which is complicated by mental alteration, hemodynamic instability, respiratory failure and severe acidosis
• Myxedema with hemodynamic instability
• Severe pancreatitis
• Severe hemorrhage with hypotension
• Epileptic crisis
• Cranial trauma with or without intracranial or subarachnoid hemorrhage with or without hematoma under, sus or extra-dural requiring neurological monitoring
• Renal failure
• State of metabolic, anoxic or toxic coma
• Meningitis with impairment of consciousness
• Brain death
• Hypokalemia or hyperkalemia with arrhythmia
• Hypo or hypernatremia with an impairment of consciousness
• Drowning
• Electrocution
• Severe intoxication
• Placement of a central venous catheter