Critical Care Unit and Outreach service
The Critical Care Unit at The London Clinic is a fully
accredited facility which manages all types of seriously ill
patients, from those who require overnight care following surgery
through to the treatment and management of patients with multiple
organ failure.
All modalities of organ support are available on site,
comparable to the facilities available at nearby teaching
hospitals. New treatments, techniques and facilities are constantly
evaluated.
The London Clinic provides on-site Critical Care Fellows whose
roles are to provide immediate care for critically ill patients.
The Unit is lead by the Clinical Director, Dr John Goldstone, and a team
of consultants are available day and night to ensure the highest
standard of care.
Critical Care at the Clinic is very active, with over 1000 cases
admitted each year. Our activity is fully audited through the
Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, and our results
and outcomes following critical illness are comparable to the best
NHS centres.
The Critical Care Unit has also been improving the care of ward
patients. We provide an “early warning” system of deteriorating
health to ward patients through a system termed Outreach. When ward
nurses record observations like blood pressure and heart rate, a
score is measured to identify patients who are ill or who have
changing observations. The Critical Care team is then alerted,
which enables patients to be seen, reviewed and treated quickly by
the Critical Care team on the ward in the event of an urgent
problem, supplementing the patients own medical team in an
emergency.
Critical Care also provides assessment for patients prior to
surgery, to quantify the level of risk involved and to individually
plan for the admission of high risk patients. The outcome after
surgery can be dramatically altered by applying Critical Care
techniques designed to maintain heart and lung function to patients
prior to surgery. This initiative has been pioneered at The
London Clinic.
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