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The center also directed that hospitals not admit critically ill patients to the ICU without the consent of the patient and their family.
The central government has issued new guidelines for hospitals on ICU admissions. The center also directed that hospitals not admit critically ill patients to the ICU without the consent of the patient and their family. Meanwhile, the new guidelines have been developed by doctors with expertise in critical care medicine working in different levels of hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) across the country.
Those patients who are critically ill should not be admitted to an ICU if they do not give their consent, according to the latest guidelines. In addition to that, the new guidelines have also mentioned that the specialist in ICU should also have specific qualifications. However, the intensivist should have a postgraduate qualification in internal medicine, anesthesia, pulmonary medicine, emergency medicine, or general surgery.
The new criteria for admitting a patient to the ICU should be based on organ failure, the need for organ support, or the anticipation of deterioration in the medical condition. In addition to that, the ICU discharge criteria guidelines state that physiological aberrations should return to a near-normal or baseline status.
