BMI The London Independent Hospital has unveiled its newly enhanced intensive therapy unit (ITU).
The new department, which has undergone a £40,000 investment, will allow the hospital to expand the level of critical care it provides in London and the international healthcare market.
BMI says the investment into the Level III ITU will provide the hospital with ‘the highest level of dedicated, continuous and specialised care’. Equipped with the latest technology, the ITU team, led by consultant intensive care anaesthetists, can now treat patients suffering from a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions that require complex multi-organ support. The new ITU has six Level III beds, with five isolation rooms, and capacity for three patients requiring high dependency Level II care. The unit also provides a renal dialysis outpatient service for patients with chronic renal failure requiring treatment for other conditions.
“The growth of the hospital’s international reputation in the past 12 months has had a dramatic impact on the ITU at the Hospital,” explained Sharon Ash, critical care manager commented. “My team and I now routinely deal with patients who have undergone highly complex cardiac, neuro, colorectal, and orthopaedic procedures, and in the past year we have treated patients who have survived road traffic accidents, gunshot wounds, and undergone severe trauma. We have also successfully completed our first live donor kidney transplant. “This investment into the ITU will allow us to continue to expand the critical care services we are able to provide to the UK and internationally. Crucially, it will also allow us to improve and enhance the level of one-to-one care we currently provide.”
The private hospital group says the BMI The London Independent Hospital is ‘among a handful of private hospitals able to offer level III critical care’. The newly refurbished unit will enhance critical care services including non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation, continuous haemodynamic and intra-cranial pressure monitoring, inotropic support, intra-aortic balloon pump therapy, and various modalities of renal replacement therapy. BMI added: “The isolation rooms, while in keeping with the hospital’s strict infection prevention and control policies, will also enhance the patient and family members’ experience by enhancing privacy and dignity during their stay in the ITU.”
Kirsty Baker, the Hospital’s executive director, added: “BMI The London Independent Hospital is proud to stand apart from the crowd when it comes to providing highly specialised care. This investment will allow us to expand our reach on an international business, while also increasing the complexity and growing range of tertiary medicine we can provide to UK patients."
