ARU

„The highest level of intensive care is provided at six beds of a supra-regional unit – a facility arranged structurally, technically and in terms of staffing with regard to maximum comfort and safety of the critically ill patient. The resuscitation unit is equipped with modern technology, the option of immediate bedside ultrasound for diagnosis and procedures, lung monitoring by electrical impedance tomography, invasive and non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring, an EEG module and monitoring of the patient’s level of consciousness using the bispectral index, and devices for determining acid–base balance and coagulation parameters (ClotPro). Immediately available continuous renal replacement therapy (CVVHD) and acute video bronchoscopy for sudden airway obstruction are a matter of course.

The Resuscitation Department, with its comprehensive staffing and equipment, aims to favourably influence the condition of the patient entrusted to it and to preserve their life (in failure of breathing, circulation, the internal environment or a combination of these). Acute patients are admitted not only from Jihlava Hospital and its catchment area, but also from the whole Vysočina Region when they require centre-level care (especially cardiological, neurological or traumatological). A considerable proportion of patients are people with acute airway obstruction of inflammatory or non-inflammatory origin requiring close cooperation with the ENT Department at any time of day. On a consultation basis, the ARU participates in the care of patients with less severe failure of vital functions at numerous other (specialist) intensive care units.

The department provides a round-the-clock medical emergency team (MET) service for all areas of Jihlava Hospital except the Emergency Department and specialist intensive care units.

Anaesthesia teams provide anaesthesia, analgosedation and/or supervision of critically ill patients to enable surgical or diagnostic procedures (CT, MRI) and/or in-hospital transport of unstable patients, amounting to dozens of procedures a day.

The pain clinic of the ARU cares for patients with poorly controlled chronic pain whose cause has been diagnosed but which responds poorly to conventional treatment. Through its approach, it helps to favourably influence the everyday life of patients with otherwise intractable pain that potentially limits their daily routine and/or quality of life.“