Intensive care ward

An intensive nursing and medical treatment is sometimes inevitable for some patients following larger surgeries or in critical, sometimes even life-threatening stages of a certain illness. An intensive care unit is personally as well as technically equipped in such a way as to perform this special kind of treatment, this also resulting in a higher level of safety for the patient concerned.

The nursing team is exclusively made up of certified nurses who additionally underwent further education and training concerning intensive medical care. Physicians from Anaestesiology, Intensive Care and Analgesic Therapy as well as colleagues from the Orthopaedics and Neurology departments hold responsibility for medically treating the respective patients.

The devices employed on the intensive care unit serve to monitor and treat the patients. Among others, the monitoring screens give a permanent overview on the patient's heart beat, blood pressure as well as other vital functions. Medicines and fluids are injected via infusion and syringe pumps, some patients require tube feeding as well.

Depending on the clinical picture, some patients also require artificial respiration. They are administered a resuscitation tube via the mouth. These patients are normally tranquilised to a very deep sleep (artificial coma) in order to make them tolerate this tube with more ease. If artificial respiration is to be continued for a longer period of time, the resuscitation tube is inserted via a temporarily created tracheal incision.