Medicine

Introduction:The department of medicine comprises of highly professional and well qualified consultants, clinical associates, senior residents, DNB residents and junior residents working as closely knit team and looking after the General and Private wards, Intensive Care Unit, High Dependency Units, Emergency & Out Patient Departments. Presently the department has consultants having wide ranging experience in the field of internal medicine, trained and worked in institutes of national and international repute providing excellent care to patients.

There are 65 beds in wards, 30 beds in ICU and 19 beds in step down ICU and high dependency unit taken care by the department of Medicine. There are around 8000 admissions per year in Medicine. The team of consultants and residents see around 250 patients in General OPDs. Around 100 patients are seen by consultants in Private OPD on a daily basis.

The ICU has state of the art equipment including ventilators, monitors, portable echo, X-ray, ultrasound and dialysis machines. The department has facilities for ECMO and has been treating patients successfully. The department also has back up from allied specialties like Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Nephrology and Cardiology. The ICU is manned by team of competent professional dedicated team of intensivists, internists and the nursing staff. The "Code Blue Team" of the hospital comparing of ICU staff has had an exemplary record in serving patients.

Postgraduate Programme :

The department has a post-graduate DNB programme for Medicine. There are 4 internal medicine candidates each year. Postgraduate training programme is accredited to National Board of Examinations, Ministry of Health, and Government of India. In last 16 years of its existence, In candidates from our institute have acquired super specialty qualification and are working in leading hospital of Delhi as Nephrologists and Gastroenterologist.

Procedures:Pericadiocentesis, Pleural tap, Liver abscess aspiration, Ascitic tap, Lumbar puncture, Bone marrow aspiration and Trephine biopsy, USS and CT guided FNACs.

Facilities :

ICCU - Ventilators, Bi-Pap, Multi-parameter monitors, Arterial Blood Gases, Pacing-temporary& Permanent, and Central lines, ECMO.

Cardiology - Echo, TMT, ECG, HolterandCardiacCath Lab.

Pulmonology - PFT, Bronchoscopy

Gastroentrology - UGI Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, ERCP

Neurology - EEG,NCV,EMG,CT and MRI.

Nephrology - Dialysis - Peritoneal &Haemodialysis and SLED.

Clinical Team :

Dr. V. Agnihotri MD, FICP (Senior Consultant)
Dr. R. Gupta MD (Senior Consultant & HOD)
Dr. L. Joseph MD (Senior Consultant)
Dr. P. Uberoi MD (Consultant)
Dr. P.N. Singh MD (Senior Consultant)
Dr. Ritu Thapliyal, MD
Dr Divya Agarwal, MD (Medicine), DNB Rheumatology
Dr. Pawan Kumar Bansal, MD

Visiting Consultants :

Dr. S.K. Sridharan MD (Senior Consultant)
Dr.SumanKirti MD FRCP, FICP (Senior Consultant)
Dr.S. Mukherji MD (Senior Consultant)