The casualty is the heart of any
hospital handling emergency trauma and other orthopaedic
emergencies. Situated on the ground floor right in front
of the entrance, it is the busiest section of the hospital
functioning continuously for 24 hrs all round the year.
It is manned by 1 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, 4 Resident
doctors and a Nurse round the clock.
Casuality
Reception
24
Hours service with Doctors on call.
Primary
Evaluation Room
Where
the patient undergoes a detailed examination from head
to toes.
Resuscitation
Room
Here
serious patients with life threatening injuries or their
complications are resuscitated. It boasts of all the
latest equipment likes :
An
emergency drug crash cart : well stocked with life-saving
drugs
Cardio-respiratory
monitors
Ventilators
Central Oxygen
supply
Defibrillators
A large stock
of IV fluids etc. which are mandatory for life saving
procedures.
Plaster
Room
For
application of plaster and wound dressings.
Emergency
X-Ray
A
500 MA X-ray machine operated by competent Radio-technicians
facilitates Radiographic imaging of the casualty patients
all 24 hrs.
Emergency
Operation Theatre
A
state of the art operation theater is specially reserved
through out the day & night for all kinds of emergency
operations right from head, chest and abdominal trauma
to compound fractures with neurovascular complications.
Thus the casualty department of this
hospital is more than well equipped to provide care for
not only individual emergencies but even for mass casualties.
