Critical Care in Allahabad

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Critical care is a specialized care of patients whose conditions are life-threatening and who require comprehensive care and constant monitoring, usually in intensive care units. It is also known as intensive care. Critical care includes the provision of sophisticated life support and invasive monitoring techniques, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. Type of critical care are coronary intensive care unit (CCU) for heart disease, medical intensive care unit (MICU), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), neuroscience critical care unit (NCCU), overnight intensive-recovery (OIR), shock/trauma intensive-care unit (STICU), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

A pulmonologist (chest specialist) is a medical specialist who is specialized in diagnosing, evaluating, and treating diseases and conditions related to the lungs. He treats diseases and health problems like lung or airway inflammation, blocked lung airways, damage to lung alveoli, cough treatment, blood or mucus in cough interstitial lung diseases, woofing cough, breathing problem, and lung diseases occurred due to inhalation of dust chemical or smoking, genetic diseases of the lung like cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis. Patients can consult online with a pulmonologist for non-emergency problems, advise for the second opinion, and for follow-ups.

When to consult online with a pulmonologist-

• Patients should have to consult pulmonologists when they having cough persistently, have difficulty breathing, cough up blood, experiencing unexplained weight loss, and short of breath.

• For the second opinion of lungs related disease.

• To show diagnostic reports to clarify about respiratory system health.