Clinic Overview
Egemed Hospitals General Intensive Care Unit: Advanced Life Support and Continuous Medical Monitoring
Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are the heart and most vital centers of hospitals. These units, where critically ill patients—who have developed failure in one or more organ systems, whose vital functions are at risk, and whose medical condition may change at any moment—are treated, require the most advanced technological and scientific infrastructure available in modern medicine.
Egemed Söke Hospital’s General Intensive Care Unit(ICU) operates with a vision to be one of the region’s leading healthcare centers, offering services with a capacity of 27 beds. The primary objective of our unit is to support the body’s impaired functions—caused by severe infections, major surgical procedures, trauma, or organ failure—using modern medical devices until the underlying condition is treated and the organs regain their normal function. Our unit provides 24/7 uninterrupted care, adhering to international intensive care standards and evidence-based medical protocols.
Our Intensive Care Infrastructure and Medical Equipment
Critical care management is a process where every second counts. To ensure the vital signs of our patients are maintained, our unit is equipped with all the advanced life support systems required by modern medicine:
[ Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring ]
Every bed in our unit is equipped with advanced bedside monitors connected to a central station. Our patients’ ECG rhythm, invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature, and respiratory parameters are continuously monitored and recorded 24 hours a day.
[ Mechanical Ventilation (Artificial Respiration) Support ]
For our patients who are unable to breathe on their own and are suffering from respiratory failure (ARDS, pneumonia), state-of-the-art mechanical ventilators are available at every bedside. By making precise adjustments to pressure and volume based on the patient’s lung capacity, we provide artificial respiratory support until the lungs have recovered.
[ Bed-Head Organ Support Systems ]
In cases where multiple organ failure develops, moving the patient out of the unit is risky. For this reason, in cases of renal failure, fluid, electrolyte, and medication management is safely performed directly at the patient’s bedside using continuous renal replacement therapy (bedside dialysis/hemofiltration) devices and advanced infusion pumps.
Expert Staff and a Multidisciplinary Approach
The success of the intensive care process depends as much on the expertise of the staff managing the technology as it does on the technological equipment itself. At the Egemed General Intensive Care Unit, medical procedures are managed by the following professional team:
- Intensive Care Physicians (Intensivist Approach): Our experienced specialist physicians, who conduct comprehensive evaluations of critically ill patients and coordinate treatment protocols, are on duty around the clock.
- Staff of Specially Trained Nurses: Intensive care nursing is a specialized field. Our patients’ medication administration, wound care, hygiene needs, and monitoring of immediate changes are carried out with the utmost care by our certified nurses who have received specialized training in this field.
- Multidisciplinary Teams: The treatment of a patient in the intensive care unit is not left to the decision of a single physician. Depending on the reason for the patient’s admission, specialists in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Pulmonology, and General Surgery participate in the process by conducting daily joint assessments (consultations) at the patient’s bedside.
- Clinical Nutritional Support: Maintaining the body’s resistance is essential for intensive care patients to fight infections. Under the supervision of our hospital’s dietitians, specialized nutritional solutions—either enteral (via a feeding tube) or parenteral (via an intravenous line)—are tailored to the patient’s swallowing reflex and gastrointestinal function.
Infection Control and Isolation Standards
The immune systems of critically ill patients are extremely vulnerable to external factors. Accordingly, the Egemed Intensive Care Unit has been designed to meet international infection control standards in terms of both architecture and operations. The unit’s ventilation system uses HEPA filters to remove particles from the air. Patients with infectious diseases or resistant infections are placed in single-occupancy isolation rooms with controlled airflow (negative/positive pressure), ensuring the safety of other patients and healthcare staff to the greatest extent possible.