SUB-INTENSIVE CARE
The Sub-Intensive Care Unit is the department capable of providing intensive care and continuous monitoring. It is necessary in cases of particular health conditions of the patient, such as support of vital functions after recent surgery.
Within the sub-intensive care unit of the Clinic, equipped with 7 beds plus 2 portable monitors that can be transferred within the clinic to monitor the vital parameters of the patients, there is a nursing station where a central unit for constant monitoring of vital parameters is located, naturally active 24 hours a day. In the sub-intensive care unit, specialized assistance is guaranteed by healthcare personnel who ensure immediate intervention if necessary. In the sub-intensive care unit, numerous types of equipment are used, both non-invasive and invasive. Each station is equipped with:
- Monitor
- Blood pressure detector
- Respiratory rate detector
- Heart rate detector
- ECG
- Central venous pressure detector
- Invasive blood pressure detector
- Oxygen saturation
- Mechanical ventilator for emergency respiratory function replacement
- Syringe pump for EV solution infusion
- Peristaltic pump for enteral nutrition
The patient, transferred from the Operating Room at the end of the surgery, is welcomed in the sub-intensive care unit by specialized nursing staff, including 3 professional nurses (rotating over 24 hours), 1 OSS, and 1 anesthetist-resuscitator doctor; the Intensive Care Unit is never without medical assistance.
