The Intensive Medicine Service (SMI) is responsible for detecting and treating people in a critical or potentially critical (semi-critical) condition throughout the hospital and the reference area. To carry out this task, the service has advanced systems for monitoring and supporting vital functions.
The service attends to patients inside and outside the Intensive Care Unit, wherever they require it, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Intensive Care Medicine is an open and multidisciplinary specialty. Its professionals maintain a close relationship with the Emergency Department, the Surgical and Resuscitation Area, as well as with other medical areas. It is the team responsible for treating cardiorespiratory arrests in the hospital, leads the hospital transplant program and participates in a large number of hospital committees.
The service has two separate units, one in the main building of the Hospital de Sant Joan Despí, with 18 beds, and the other in building B in the center, with 28 beds.
In addition, there are also four semi-critical care beds in the Obstetrics Care Unit of Hospital General de l'Hospitalet, in charge of the Gynecology and Obstetrics service and with the face-to-face support of the Anesthesiology service.
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Patients treated at Hospital General de l'Hospitalet, who throughout their evolution require some measure of support that can only be offered at Hospital de Sant Joan Despí, are transferred by medical ambulance to the Medical Service Intensive of the latter center.
In the same way, all those patients who require complex diagnostic or therapeutic techniques typical of third-level hospitals, such as cardiac catheterization, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) or others not available in our center, are transferred to the General Hospital of Bellvitge, which is the center of reference.
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The service is committed to clinical research in intensive care medicine, and collaborates in national and international studies promoted by scientific societies and leads its own research projects, in the fields of acute respiratory failure and the psychological well-being of patients and their families.
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The service holds two weekly sessions (one bibliographic and one review) aimed at updating knowledge and improving the operation of the service itself, to improve care for our patients every day. A monthly mortality session is held to analyze the assistance given to these cases and identify options for change or improvement.
Intensive Medicine helps train Nursing students, Medical students (in their Cardiology rotation) and training specialists (MIR) in the specialties of Internal Medicine, Anesthesia and Resuscitation, Family and Community Medicine and Geriatrics. He also has the MIR intensive medicine teaching accreditation.
Update date: 01.01.2024
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