Emergency Medicine

Our Services

Overview

The department of Emergency Medicine started as a 20 bedded facility in 2018. The Department has undergone multiple upgrades, including a recent extension and face-lift and currently has a 30 bedded modern hospital-within-hospital facility, fully equipped to cater for patients presenting with various medical and surgical emergencies, including Trauma Care. The Operating Room, Intensive Care Unit and a Labour Complex attached to the Department further helps in providing wholesome, high quality emergent care and aids in the management of critically ill patients. The department functions 24 hours a day, on all days (including weekends and public holidays). The highly trained team includes Emergency Physicians, Post- Graduate Residents, Junior Residents and nursing staff on duty round the clock.

Our Facilities

  • State of the art monitoring facilities for all beds, which enables invasive and non-invasive BP Monitoring, ECG and SpO2 Monitoring
  • Dialysis port for emergency Hemodialysis and SLED
  • Defibrillator with transcutaneous pacing facility
  • End Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
  • Point of Care Ultrasonography
  • CPR Feedback Device to ensure CPR quality
  • Video Laryngoscopy

Doctors

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Dr. Jobin Jose Maprani


TCMC 42642
Professor & HOD
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Dr. Lini Chacko


TCMC 28297
Associate Professor
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Dr. Manna Maria Theresa


TCMC No: 63966
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Antony Kalliath


Senior Resident
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Dr. Tom Philip


TCMC No: 75256
Senior Resident
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Dr Mary Jacob


Senior Resident
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Dr Steffy K Thomas


TCMC No: 68664
Senior Resident

Our Services

  • Department Overview

    Our department comprises of a Triage area, a resuscitation bay for critically ill patients, a trauma bay, medical bay, procedure/plaster, major and minor OT, Ophthalmology/ENT dorm and Labour room. The Department is centrally air conditioned with segregations for isolation rooms which have negative pressure ventilation

  • Equipment and Technologies
    • State of the art ambulance bay and pre-hospital care
    • POCUS (point of care ultrasound) – for rapid bedside diagnosis of acute conditions and aids in provision of early appropriate management.
    • Dialysis port with 24-hour access to emergency hemodialysis
    • Largest point of care facility in the hospital which includes CBC, blood gas analysis, RFT, LFT, Uric Acid, D-Dimer, Troponin I, BNP and lipid profile. This greatly helps expedite provision of appropriate care to patients.
    • All ED beds, including triage beds equipped with cardiac monitoring facility and oxygen ports.
  • Procedures And Treatments Offered
    • Trained doctors and staff capable of providing adult and pediatric advanced life support.
    • Advanced airway management, including surgical airway – both adult and pediatric
    • Invasive and non-invasive ventilation
    • Tube thoracostomy
    • Central and peripheral venous access
    • Acute stroke care including thrombolysis
    • Cardiac care – including management of arrhythmias, transcutaneous pacing, and 24 hour access to cath lab for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction. We also provide thrombolysis facilities for acute myocardial infarction.
    • Access to a well equipped blood bank enabling management of traumatic and non- traumatic hemorrhagic shock, and also provision of massive transfusion

    Doctors and staff trained in provision of acute trauma and critical care

  • Academic Facilities

    Our Department has a post-graduate training program in Emergency Medicine with an annual intake of 2 trainees. We have a dedicated skills lab, seminar hall and a department library stocked with recent journals and textbooks that help keep the Residents updated on their academics.