Our ICU is on the third floor of the hospital, part of Unit 53, and consists of 23 critical care beds in individual rooms, 2 of which have a negative pressure isolation system.


The ICU has a rectangular layout, with two nurses' stations which the individual rooms are located around.

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The central corridor is designed to ensure the unobstructed movement of hospital staff and patient beds.


We provide other services for patients and their relatives, such as a waiting room and a reception area, along with facilities for use by hospital staff, including a pharmacy, equipment and supplies storage areas, a nurses' room and medical offices.

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The Service is equipped as corresponds to a 3rd level ICU (ventilators, simultaneous vital signs monitoring system, full articulated electric bed headboard column, neuromonitoring, ECMO, CRRT, etc.).

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Techniques and procedures:

Our ICU offers a Portfolio of Services typical of a 3rd level Hospital, including, most notably:

  • BASIC AND ADVANCED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR). Cardiac massage. Use of vasoactive and antiarrhythmic drugs. Pacemaker placement. ECMO.
  • ASSISTED INTRAHOSPITAL TRANSPORTATION. Haemodynamic monitoring. Transfer monitor (ECG, PANI, PAI, SpO2). Transport ventilator.
  • TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS. Electrocardiographic monitoring. Heart rate. ST-T analysis. Pressure monitoring. Invasive and non-invasive blood pressure. Central venous pressure. Pulmonary pressures and wedging. Cardiac output.
  • CARDIOVERSION AND DEFIBRILLATION.
  • MANAGEMENT OF HEART DISEASE. Control and treatment of malignant arrhythmias. Pharmacological haemodynamic support. Mechanical haemodynamic support. Intraaortic Counterpulsation Balloon (IABP). IMPELLA, ECMO. Doppler echocardiography.
  • ESTABLISHMENT, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF THE ARTIFICIAL AIRWAY AND ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION. Conventional techniques. Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation. Invasive Mechanical Ventilation. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Nitric Oxide.
  • MONITORING OF VENTILATORY FUNCTION AND GAS EXCHANGE. Respiratory mechanics. Pressures, flows and volumes. Loops. Compliance and resistance. Pulse oximetry. Capnography.
  • ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF TRACHEOSTOMY.
  • NUTRITION AND METABOLISM. Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Control.
  • Continuous Dialysis Techniques. EXTRARENAL DEPURATION.
  • TRAUMA CARE. General ultrasound. Flexible fibrescope. Videolaryngoscope. Therapeutic embolisation. Rapid infusion pump. Fluid heater.
  • MULTIMONITORING IN NEUROCRITICS AND MANAGEMENT OF INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY PATIENTS IN PRE- AND POST-PROCEDURES, Accredited Unit. Portable electroencephalograph. Evoked potentials, transcranial echodoppler, intravascular oxygen saturation monitor, continuous intracranial pressure monitor. BIS and Skin Saturation Monitor.
  • HIGH-RISK SURGERY: Cardiac, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Digestive: Liver and Pancreas, Oncological Surgery and HIPEC, Gynaecology and other high-risk post-surgeries. Post-operative care of high-risk patients
  • CARE FOR MULTIORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND MULTIORGAN FAILURE.
  • PLASMAPHRESIS in high-risk patients.
  • ORGAN TRANSPLANT CARE. Donor detection and maintenance. ME Donor Programme and Controlled Singleton Donation, Maastricht 3. Care for renal transplant patients.