Horizon Prime Hospital - Thane

Horizon Prime Hospital, a 120 bedded premier multispeciality hospital located at the heart of Thane City within a short span post its inauguration in the year 2019, has already established a strong foothold as one of the topmost hospitals in the industry.

The Intensive Care Unit, the heart of the hospital spread across spacious 5000 sqft area has been exquisitely designed with all ultra-modern equipments to give utmost patient care and faster recovery for its patients. 

 For any successful hospital, their ICU and Critical Care Unit is their backbone. Horizon Prime Hospital ICU by giving more survivors from the deadly diseases, has gained a reputed stature in this country. “Machine Power” along with “Man Power” apart from the good protocols followed by the hospital are the factors decided for the quality of critical care delivered in these units.

Horizon Prime Hospital critical care unit is headed by Medical Director and Chairman of Horizon Group of Hospitals Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya. He is world renowned Pulmonogist and Critical Care Specialist, one of the few doctors to be certified by American board of Pulmonary Medicine. He is also a visiting Pulmonary Critical Care Consultant at Michael Debakey Heart Centre and Providence Medical Centre at Kansas City, USA. Besides Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya co-founded the Thane branch of ISCCM (Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine). Pulmonary critical care, also called critical care medicine, is a specialized branch of emergency and critical care medicine dedicated to addressing injuries and illnesses of the respiratory system. Critical care pulmonologists specialize in diagnosing and treating respiratory challenges, such as multi-system failure and other life-threatening scenarios. 

Horizon Prime spacious 15 bedded unit is enabled with modern machinery, astute architecture and well trained medical and nursing teams to ensure quality care. Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya as a Medical Director has taken utmost care in choosing world class sophisticated equipments required for the ICU to match with international standards. This has been benefitting the patients not only in the treatment, but these advance technologies along with the experienced skilled team of doctors and nurses, Horizon Prime Hospital’s ICU unit team are able to cut down patients hospital stay in turn benefitting the patients by reducing the cost.  

Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya says “Our ICU is set on the foundation of cutting edge technology, patient centricity and quality care. In order to give patients a good rest during the ICU stay and avoid bed sores, we use automated smart electronic air beds along with unique international type of dressing that is now a protocol that we follow for every patient. We undertake special protocols for Pneumonia Prevention, central line infection prevention. These protocols that we follow reduce the mortality, morbidity, improve the outcome and thus help in reducing the hospital ICU stay of the patients. We are proud to be able to bring to Thane City a setup of this stature, that harness technology to bring the best to its patients, making this unit arguably the best that the city can offer. 

Currently, Horizon Prime Hospital has 15 beds in their first ICU set up and soon propose to add 20 more beds in their second ICU set up. The ICU division apart from the top doctor’s team also has the world class sophisticated automated beds, ventilators, ECMO machine, CRRT machine, Pneumatic Shoot system and various other advanced technologies to provide faster recovery for their patients.

Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya says “Critical care units are complex and lie at the heart of any hospital’s acute care services. It brings together almost all the medical specialties alongside allied healthcare professionals and support services. The provision of intensive care services has expanded almost exponentially over the last 30 years with ever increasing advancement in our ability to stabilize and support critically ill patients. These advances have made critical care services expensive to design, build, staff and run but there is no doubt that the care that we provide gives the sickest patients the best chance of recovery”.

Replying to the Query as to what should a common man look for while selecting a Hospital and Its ICU Facilities Dr. Hrushikesh Vaidya said “As every hospital’s strength is its ICU, the points that a common man needs to consider while choosing a Hospital for the loved ones to get appropriate care is to find out whether the hospital is NABH accredited, who is the Medical Director and his qualification. He should further check whether  it is headed by a Critical Care specialist, does the hospital has qualified experienced registered nurses, infrastructure, life support technologies ECMO and CRRT whether its available at the ICU”.

Horizon Prime Hospital Intensive Care Unit comprises of a team of nurses and doctors that include 

1)    Pulmologist and Critical Care Specialist

2)    Experienced Doctors Team

3)    Intensivist 

4)    Care Managers

5)    Special Trained Nurses

The emergency conditions treated at Horizon Prime Hospital ICU include

a)    Sepsis – A serious condition where body responds improperly to an infection

b)    Hypotensive Shock caused by sudden low blood pressure

c)    Ischemic Stroke – Lack of blood supply to brain.

d)    Respiratory Failure

e)    Renal Failure

f)     Heart Attack and Heart Failures

g)    Cardiac Arrest

Advanced technology: 

At Horizon Hospital ICU one can witness to see the world class ultra-modern sophisticated technologies being used for patients in the ICU’s state-of-the-art ventilators, in the mechanical devices delivering 24-hour Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), and in the Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machines that provide critical heart and lung support. Thus, the hospital is able to provide high level of care to their patients and the recovery is faster.

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Machine: Horizon Prime Hospital is the only one in entire Thane area to have this life saving equipment. ECMO is essentially a heart / lung life support machine that takes over the heart pump and oxygenation functions normally done by the patient’s heart and lungs. The pump provides support for the heart, while the oxygenation function involves the blood being removed from the body, where oxygen is added (and carbon dioxide is removed) and the blood is returned back into the body.

ECMO can be used briefly, for example, during heart surgery requiring that circulation be stopped temporarily to enable the surgeon to perform the operation. But in the context of the ICU, ECMO is typically used for a period of days to support patients experiencing respiratory failure or cardiac failure whose condition is severe yet potentially reversible, such as acute viral cardiomyopathy or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ECMO is not considered as a first-line treatment, so its use generally occurs only after conventional therapies and first-line treatments, such as ventilators, have failed. Having ECMO temporarily taking over provides an opportunity for the patient’s own heart and lungs to recover while giving the ICU medical team additional time to determine the optimal treatment strategy and plan next steps.

ECMO Machine is an extremely important machine that any hospital should have to save the life of a critically ill patient. Horizon Prime Hospital have successfully saved 5 lives including an Australian patient. 

CRRT Equipment: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) supports kidney function when a patient is unable to support them on their own. The goal of CRRT is to take the burden off damaged kidneys by assuming responsibility for gradually flushing waste products out of the body. CRRT is a form of hemodialysis, a treatment process that replaces the function of the kidneys, filtering out waste materials and water from a patient’s blood. Hemodialysis is a treatment process that — just as healthy kidneys would normally do — filters out waste materials and water from a patient’s blood, making it easier to maintain stable blood pressure and ensure a proper amount of minerals such as calcium, potassium and sodium remain in the blood.

Patients with mild to moderate kidney failure but whose blood pressure is stable typically undergo hemodialysis in an outpatient clinic setting, with the process requiring about 4 hours to complete. In the context of the ICU, CRRT typically extends over a longer period of time, perhaps several days, and patients may not have the kind of stable blood pressure normally required with outpatients. Conventional hemodialysis operates at a high flow rate, meaning the blood is cleaned and returned quickly. The patient’s stable blood pressure makes this possible. With CRRT in the ICU, the flow rate is significantly slower, with the blood removal and cleaning done little by little over a continuous period of time. Advances in technology have enabled the newest generation of CRRT devices to deliver 24-hour hemodialysis even during periods of low blood pressure, providing a new treatment option for intensive care patients with acute kidney injuries, advanced kidney failure, and other conditions that impair normal kidney function.

Pneumatic Shoot System: Pneumatic Shoot System plays a very essential and a significant role in any hospital. It’s regarded as a logistical backbone of patient therapy. The pneumatic shoot system sets international standards in the field of medication and laboratory sample transport as well as in hospital logistics. Pneumatic Shoot system handles a large part of the critical intralogistics transport routes in hospitals. The system ideally connects all wards, surgical rooms and departments with the hospital’s laboratory and central pharmacy. It significantly shortens delivery times and handles two of the most important material flows in the hospital – diagnostics and therapy. Whether blood, tissue, urine samples or medication – when speed is vital, the Pneumatic Shoot system will transport items fast and safe. With Pneumatic Shoots, it’s easier to transport faster patient’s samples to the Laboratory, medicines to the patients. Pneumatic Shoot system are basic inventory in hospitals.  It’s the best solution where in healthcare delivery every second counts. At the same time, pneumatic shoot systems simplify the daily routine of clinical staff, as errands are avoided, and resources can thus be used for therapy-related services. 

Smart Automated Beds: Horizon Prime Hospital has also taken acute care while selecting the beds for their critical care patients.  Today’s generation of hospital beds is much more than a resting place for patients. It is part of the arsenal of tools that hospitals are using to treat patients. It is becoming the gold standard of care and is also recognized as a quality of care issue. These smart automated beds can help prevent pneumonia and bed sores. The bed is equipped with a comfortable air mattress that controls temperature and keeps patients cool and dry, thereby preventing bed sores and improving a patient’s quality of life.

Smart Ventilators: Ventilators play a very crucial role and act as a lifesaving equipment. Ventilators are machines that support breathing, helping patients who are unable to breathe on their own, or whose breathing is insufficient to keep their body functioning properly. A ventilator’s primary tasks are to get oxygen into the lungs and remove carbon dioxide from the body through an airway tube such an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube inserted through the mouth or trachea. Ventilators are a common presence in hospital surgical wards, as they are typically used for short periods to support the breathing of a patient undergoing surgery that requires general anesthesia.

In the ICU, ventilators are among the most widely used life-support technologies. They may be required to support the breathing of patients with severe lung conditions or lung diseases, including acute conditions such as respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Patients recovering from complex surgeries who are not yet strong enough to breathe fully on their own may benefit from ventilator support. Advances in technology have improved the reliability and accuracy of ventilator devices, ensuring, for example, that the concentration of oxygen delivered to the patient does not vary over time. Their reliability also continues to increase from one generation of devices to the next. 

Horizon Prime Hospital ICU uses top class ultra-sophisticated smart ventilators that is unique in providing outstanding non-invasive performance in a full featured intensive care ventilator. Due to its very compact design, it offers maximum flexibility in various user environments, be it long term care, intensive care, emergency, or respiratory care. 

Physical Therapists: Horizon Prime Hospital has strong team of Physiotherapists to provide proactive and preventive care to the patients. Physical Therapists assist with restoring a function of the body that involves muscles, bones, tissues or nerves. Through therapy, patients can improve their ability to increase mobility. Therapy can also reduce pain and swelling, and help prevent permanent physical disability.

Horizon Prime Hospital ICU – A Saviour 

Patient Experiences

The combination of state-of-the-art medical equipment, advanced technologies, a highly knowledgeable and skilled team of intensive care experts inspires a high level of trust in the ICU at Horizon Prime Hospital. The experiences of both Indian and International Patients and their family members are reflected in the strong global reputation that Horizon Prime Hospital’s ICU continues to enjoy. By maintaining patient safety and standards at world-class levels, the ICU medical team continues to pursue medical excellence, so that patients receive the quality care they deserve.