Paediatric Critical Care or Intensive Care (PICU)
Some of the conditions that are treated in a PICU include the following:
- 1. Child with intractable seizures
- 2. Head Injury
- 3. Neuromuscular disease
- 4. Motor vehicle accident
- 5. Drowning
- 6. Severe asthma
- 7. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- 8. Pneumonia
- 9. Kidney or liver failure
- 10. Crisis of blood disorders
- 11. Burns
- 12. ETC
These Children who are critically ill require careful monitoring in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Pediatric critical care specialists coordinate the care of these children which is provided by a team of doctors, nurses, and other health care specialists. They use the special medicines or treatments that can only be offered in the PICU.