Critical Care Units
There are 4 main intensive care units at Baptist Hospital. The Medical ICU, Neuro-Surgical ICU, CVICU, and the Coronary Care Unit.
The Medical intensive care unit has 13 beds and treats a variety of critically ill patients. The Surgical intensive care unit also has 13 beds and treats Neurological and Surgical patients. The CVICU is a new unit developed in 2012 that sees the post Coronary Artery Bypass patients. The Coronary Care unit sees heart attack and heart failure patients. A heart doctor from St Thomas Heart is always in the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In 2008, The Nerological ICU and the Surgical ICU combined beds and formed the current Nero-Surgical ICU.
The patients in all of these units are cared for by a special breed of critical care nurses and a critical care hospitalists who are present in the units 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Family members are encouraged to visit their family members during visiting hours. When it is not visiting hours, families can wait in the critical care waiting room on the 5th floor of the hospital.
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