Intensive Care Unit

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Hameed Latif Hospital is dedicated to providing top-level care to patients with life-threatening conditions, ensuring a compassionate environment for both patients and their families. Staffed with highly skilled professionals and equipped with modern technology, the critical care unit prioritizes patient dignity, safety, and comfort.

These are the areas of the hospitals that are specially staffed, equipped, and designed to closely monitor and treat patients with life-threatening conditions. For this reason, nursing care will be much more intense, and patients will be reviewed by different teams regularly. The Critical Care Team provides a high degree of specialized care, vigilant monitoring, and individual attention for a wide range of medical and surgical problems, including those with bariatric, gynecological, obstetric, trauma, renal, neurological, and cardiac problems.

The wider multidisciplinary team includes a dedicated critical care pharmacist, a dietitian, a team of physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, and consultants from various medical and surgical specialties.

Intensive Care refers to a specialized healthcare unit designed for individuals with severe medical conditions requiring constant monitoring and advanced medical support. Patients in an intensive care unit often have critical illnesses where one or more body systems, such as the heart, lungs, or kidneys, are compromised.

Common reasons for ICU admission include:

• Severe trauma.
• Complex surgical recovery.
• Advanced respiratory or cardiac failure.
• Life-threatening infections or conditions requiring intensive monitoring.

Unlike general wards, ICUs offer 1:1 nursing care, advanced therapies, and support for organs under failure, making them essential for critically ill patients.

• High Dependency Units: These patients require close monitoring and single-organ support. Patients are admitted from the ward or ‘stepped down’ from ICU to HDU where they continue their recovery and often stay there before being stepped down to ward-level care.
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Our Critical Care Team provides care for patients with high-risk co-morbidities undergoing complex surgical procedures in 8 bedded Surgical ICU. All the beds are equipped for facilities to provide mechanical ventilation both non-invasive and invasive if needed.
• Critical Care Outreach Services: Critical Care Outreach Team in Hameed Latif Hospital is involved in providing early, skilled assistance to staff in wards or departments caring for patients who deteriorate, attempting to prevent further deterioration and, when appropriate, arrange for them to be admitted to Intensive Care Unit. To assist in the continuity of patient care, the outreach teams also review all discharges from the intensive Care Unit.
• Post-Intensive Care Service: Critical Care Team is actively involved in the Post-Critical Care Follow-up Clinic, providing care and support to patients who are at risk of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome.
• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: The Paediatric ICU (PICU) at HLH is responsible for providing highest level of care and treatment to children suffering from life-threatening illness. The modern monitoring systems at PICU enable constant tracking of their breathing rate, heart rate, and electrical activity of the brain.

Hameed Latif Hospital’s ICU is widely recognized for its best ICU services in Lahore, catering to diverse patient needs with state-of-the-art facilities.