The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) opened on March 1976 with a four-bed section equipped with individual monitors, piped in oxygen and suction. Three years later, the unit was relocated to a bigger area on the second floor and expanded to an eight-bed section, with the last two beds utilized as the Acute Stroke Unit. On January 2002, it acquired eight Horizon 1100 (Mennen) cardiac monitors connected to a central monitoring station where patients can be monitored simultaneously. The cardiac monitor in each cubicle also features oxygen saturation monitoring and pressure monitoring. The critically ill patient can be assured of competent and prompt services from highly qualified medical specialists and specially trained nurses exclusively assigned to one patient. Patients qualified for admission to the ICU are noncardiac patients who are critically ill, patients who need ventilator, and postoperative patients who need close monitoring for the first 48 hours after surgery and neurologic cases for the Acute Stroke Unit.



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