Emergency Medicine
The Indus Emergency health system has been designed to provide acute care in all areas of medicine and surgery. We have based our model on the Team – the care approach. The department has been backed with state of art infrastructure with Monitors, Defibrillators, and Ventilators and is well-equipped with all the medical essentials, diagnostic, and treatment tools. Our doctors can treat most of the conditions at any stage.
Why Choose Us?
- The system banks on cooperative clinical collaboration between internists, surgeons, orthopedics, anesthesiologist, pediatricians, obstetricians, cardiologists, neurologists, and intensivists.
- Our system aims at the provision of fast and timely care.
- Our system has a well-trained nursing team who care for both young and old in emergencies.
- Our system has Emergency operation theatres and Resuscitation rooms
- Well-established triage protocols
- We follow internationally accepted BLS, ACLS, and, PALS protocols.
- Our Department of Emergency Medicine thoroughly diagnoses the patients and treats them in the emergency room. If the need for further analysis and testing arises, patients are then admitted to the hospital to perform further assessments by the medical professionals and doctors at Indus Hospital.
- Most importantly, the Department of Emergency Medicine at Indus work 24*7, hence it is regarded as one of the top emergency hospitals in Punjab. We have a team of professionals with years of experience and expertise who provide the best emergency medical treatment to the patients. Our team caters to the needs of all from women, and men to elderly people and children.
Conditions We Treat
- Medical emergencies like infections/Sepsis like Dengue, malaria, Leptospirosis, Typhoid Hepatitis, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis and pyrexia of unknown origin, Hypoglycemia/hyperglycemia (high)/Ketoacidosis, Hyperpyrexia with severe dehydration episodes, severe allergic reactions.
- Cardiac Emergencies: Heart Attack (MI/CAD), Heart Rhythm Problems (Arrhythmias), Cardiac Failure, etc.
- Obstetrics and Gynecological emergencies like preterm labor, antepartum hemorrhage, eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, cervical incompetence, menorrhagia, ruptured ectopic pregnancy, twisted ovarian cyst, etc.
- Neurological Emergencies: Acute Stroke (CVA), Seizures, Headaches, Vertigo / Loss of consciousness/hyponatremia, etc.
- Respiratory Emergencies: Severe Asthma/COPD, Pneumothorax, hemoptysis, etc.
- Gastrointestinal emergencies like abdominal colic (acute abdomen),
hematemesis, constipation, etc. - ENT emergencies like epistaxis
- Surgical Emergencies like acute appendicitis, pancreatitis, obstructed hernia, perforation peritonitis, intestinal obstruction, etc.
- Accident/Trauma Care
- Pediatric emergencies including febrile convulsions
- Urological emergencies like renal, ureteric colic, Acute urinary retention, etc.
- Toxicological Emergencies: Snake Bite, Envenomation, Drug Overdose, Poisoning, etc.
- All open and laparoscopic emergency procedures.
These are a few of the injuries that can be attended to by the Indus Emergency Medicine Department:
- Cuts, grazing, and bruising
- Wounds that may need stitching
- Minor burns and scalds
- Tetanus immunization after an injury
- Removal of foreign bodies from eyes, ears, or nose
- Minor eye problem
- Insect bites and other animal bites
- Head injuries, injuries to other parts of the body
- Nose bleeds, etc.