Postoperative follow-up and treatment support are offered in Liv Hospital General Intensive Care Unit, in which care of major surgeries, especially oncological major surgeries (Cytoreductive HIPEC, IORT) are carried out. Liv Hospital General Intensive Care Unit offers multidisciplinary, patient-oriented, high quality and reliable health service with its team of specialist physicians and specialists of other branches. 51 percent of our patients followed-up in 2014 are accepted as after postoperative elective major surgery. Intensive care support treatment was administered to our patients after major oncological surgical procedures performed by Pediatric Surgery and our patients have been discharged with recovery. Our patients are mobilized from the first time that is allowed by clinical situation and complications that may arise due to prolonged lying are prevented. Case based councils are held in General Intensive Care Unit in order to improve our patient clinical results, to take the services to a much more perfect level.

Expert Staff and Advanced Equipment

Liv Hospital Intensive Care Unit is equipped with modern monitors and monitoring facilities with the use of advanced medical technologies. Special intensive care beds, ventilator, monitors, infusion pumps, feeding pumps, portable ventilator, portable x-ray, echocardiography and ultrasound devices, blood gas analyzer and central oxygen system are available within its structure that has modern medical equipment.

Our unit offers services as a center of excellence to be able to serve predominantly heart and vascular patients and postoperative patients with risk, to bear with the complications and to provide supportive treatment and maintenance care.

High Quality and Reliable Patient Care

Liv Hospital General Intensive Care Unit has an equipped structure designed in the form of isolated single-bed rooms. A permanent faculty member and an intensive care specialist in the day andteam on duty, which is consisting ofspecialist physicians, at night provide the continuity of follow-up and treatments of our patients in the unit.A nurse to provide health services to 2 patients at the maximum increases the quality and safety of patient care in Our Intensive Care Unit.Our goal is to achieve good clinical outcomes in our patients by using current intensive care approaches and all available organ support systems. Thus, hemodiafiltration, hemodialysis, plasmapheresis, liver support systems, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and similar organ support systems are being implemented with success in our intensive care unit and positive results are obtained.

Clinical activities in Liv Hospital General Intensive Care Unit are evaluated on a monthly basis and the obtained data are compared with the results available in the literature of the world and our country. The results of these evaluations also show us that we can reach our goals every month.

Liv Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit aims for babies to receive the most accurate treatment possible with its expert team and advanced technological incubator like equipment hardware.

Babies are in separate rooms in the intensive care unit…

Severe infections experienced in the hospital negatively affect the brain development of babies, and it can leave serious lifetime sequelae. Each baby receives intensive care service in a separate room in Liv Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for the first time in Turkey in order to eliminate the risk of infection. No hospital infection has been observed in newborns in the clinic. All babies hospitalized in the unit are treated extremely carefully about administering antibiotics via rational use of antibiotics.

Separate room for every premature

The rate of infection in the unit is only 2% because premature (preterm) babies, who requires particularly sensitive care, are performed the necessary treatment and care in separate rooms. Although, this figure is around 15%-20% in international average, the survival rate in babies born with very small birth weight, weighing less than 1000 grams, is 100% in our hospital.

Who are forming the Neonatal intensive care team?

There is an experienced neonatal intensive care team working 24 hours in the hospital. The team is consisting of young and dynamic specialist physicians, Ismail Gonen, MD, Eda Balanlı, MD working under surveillance of Gulnihal Sarman, MD and Pinar Dayanikli, MD who broke grounds in the neonatal field in Turkey for years, and Pediatric Surgeon Asst. Assoc. Prof. Safak Karacay, MD.

We act in cooperation with experienced physicians

A multidisciplinary approach by taking support from other departments is adopted when required while restoring the babies’ health. Cooperation is carried out with highly experienced physicians in pediatric neurology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric endocrinology, cardiovascular surgery, retina and neurosurgery departments.

Examinations beside the incubator…

Examinations such as ultrasound imaging, direct radiography, retinal examination, hearing tests, brain EEG and heart ECHO can be performed at the bedside without moving babies of the bed in the unit. Medical examinations of the babies can be performed in comfort and safety thanks to these portable technological services.

Severely premature babies are discharged healthily

Severely premature (preterm) babies and neonates in the other risk groups are discharged healthily in Liv Hospital Neonatal Care Unit, where neonatal intensive care technology is merged with experience. Newborns with risk may need to be followed-up in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after birth. All patients discharged from the NICU need to come to the Risk Infant Follow-up Outpatient Clinic.