Cases of heat stroke also increase in the rising temperature due to heat. Dr. (Prof.) ajay Shukla, director and Medical Superintendent of Dr. RML Hospital, Delhi, announced the launch of India's first state-of-the-art heat stroke unit on thursday (01 May). This new heat stroke unit has been specially designed for the treatment of severe heat stroke patients and immersion cooling technology has also been used in it, which is considered the best in the treatment of heat stroke. With the increase in heat, cases of heat stroke also increase and due to increasing temperature, many patients fall victim to heat stroke every day and then reach hospitals for treatment. For such patients, the facility of special units in hospitals will provide relief to the patients and the admission of patients will also be easy due to reserved beds.
Treatment of heat stroke patients with immersion cooling technique
Special immersion cooling technique has also been started in the heat stroke unit started in ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. It has two immersion cooling tubs with a capacity of 200–250 liters, a high-capacity refrigerator that makes 200–250 kg of ice, two critical care beds, which are equipped with ventilators and monitors.
What did the doctors of RML say?
Dr. Amelendu, HOD of Emergency Medicine of ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, said that due to climate change and increasing temperature every year, last year ram Manohar Lohia Hospital started preparing for the heat stroke unit and this unit was prepared. If any patient suffering from heat stroke reaches the emergency ward of the hospital, he will be immediately brought from there to the heat stroke unit.
Special bath tubs installed
Special bath tubs have been installed in this unit. These are such tubs in which water gets filled at a fast speed within one to one and a half minutes. It requires approximately 50 kg of ice which will be prepared by the ice making machine present in the heat stroke unit. Then after filling water and 50 kg of ice, its temperature immediately becomes 1 to 5 degrees. To normalize the body temperature of the heat stroke patient, his clothes are removed immediately and the patient is placed in a tub after the monitor with bp and other equipment is attached to it and monitoring continues.
ICU-like monitoring continues after placing the patient in a tub filled with ice. According to the doctor, it takes 20 to 25 minutes for the temperature of the heat stroke patient to become normal and 80% of the patients have already had a breathing tube inserted in such a condition. After the body temperature becomes normal, the patient is removed from the tub and if a ventilator is needed, then ICU-like beds and ventilators have also been arranged in the heat stroke unit..jpg)
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