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Critical Care Units
The motto of Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH,N) is to provide compassionate,
ethical, affordable and high quality care that meets the needs of the patients,
their families and others.
The Critical Care Units at AKUH,N comprises of:
Intensive Care Unit
The eight bed ICU provides high-quality specialised care to critically-ill patients.
There are six general beds with two isolation rooms. The unit is staffed by consultant
cardiologists, resident doctors and nurses with a nurse-patient ratio of 1:1.5.
The nurses are knowledgeable, technically sound. They are trained to
care and mentor the critical patients as well as look after their families in a holistic manner. The unit admits critically-ill patients from
within Nairobi and its outskirts as well as from the East African region. Due to
its renowned and superior staff and equipment, the ICU shows occupancy of over 90 per cent
on average.
The ICU at AKUH,N is an open ICU, enabling many doctors access to admit their
patients depending on the availability of a bed. It is managed by a clinical director,
assisted by two anaesthesia consultants. A full time ICU senior registrar and six registrars
man the unit 24 hours of the day. There are 34 nurses to cover all the required
shifts. The nursing staff includes a nursing manager, team leader and clinical nurse
specialist.
High Dependency Unit
The six bed High Dependency Unit (HDU) is specially designed for patients who require
constant monitoring without the need for the intense treatment found at the ICU.
The Unit offers optimal continuous close observations for patients who require constant
attention and monitoring, for example, directly after major operations. Nursing care
is tailor made and planned for each individual patient’s needs.
Nenonatal Intensive Care Unit
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is two bed Unit where the nurse-patient ratio is
1:1. Critically-ill and premature babies are admitted into this Unit, from within
the Hospital as well as outside.
Being a University Hospital, the critical areas units endeavour to meet and surpass the
challenge of providing quality and evidence-based critical care to all the patients. With the latest
equipment including ventilators, cardiac monitors and invasive monitoring devices. AKUH,N also has both conventional and continuous renal replacement therapy dialysis machines.
To ensure and support evidence-based practice, the Unit has several evidence-based
critical care protocols in place. There are also ongoing continuous medical education
sessions for both the nurses and doctors.
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