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Emergency Medicine

Overview

The emergency department at Fortis is a dependable centre capable of handling all types of emergencies. About 40 percent of the monthly hospital admissions are from this department. One unique feature of this emergency department, in sharp contrast to the others in the area, is the ambulance service and pre-hospital care provided by ER.

Department Highlights
ACLS ambulances equipped with the essential equipment like oxygen, ventilator, monitors, syringe pumps, and emergency drugs are available round the clock. A trained doctor and a nurse accompany the patient for each ambulance call. It is our endeavor to ensure that the ambulance leaves the hospital within minutes of receiving the call. Besides the tricity, we also send our ambulances for outstation calls to J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Punjab and Haryana

Services/Treatments Offered
Upon the arrival in ER patients typically under go a brief triage or sorting, to help determine the nature and severity of their illnesses. Individuals with serious illnesses are given priority over those with less severe symptom / injuries

  • After initial assessment and treatment the patients are either admitted or discharged or rarely stabilized and transfer to another hospital as the case may be
  • The department acts as a good host to the patients, where they are received at the entry by ensuring comfort and urgency one requires. If timely information of the incoming patient is already available, all arrangements are made before the arrival including informing the specialists and / or ICUs if required. The nursing staff is fully trained to provide necessary assistance to the doctor on duty to assess and provide immediate and timely medication
  • The patient is kept till initial stabilization and necessary documentation, initial blood sampling, ECG etc. has been completed. The attendants are also kept informed about the likely disease / prognosis.
  • Critical conditions handled include cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, trauma, asthma, COPD, strokes to name a few