Emergency Services
At PRS Department of Casualty/ Emergency Services all emergency and trauma cases are attended to. Patients who come here are given treatment / first aid and referred to specialist consultants, if required. Though patient care is the primary concern of this department, equal importance is given by the Casualty Medical Officers, to the Medico Legal Aspects of the cases that are attended to here.
Accidents and injuries RTA (MLC + Injuries with medico legal history) like fall from height, Injuries at working places, home and school ,assault ,poisoning ,hanging, electric shock , drowning, snake bites, dog bites etc are seen here.
The department handles medical and surgical emergencies like:
- Paediatric emergencies including febrile convulsions
- Active seizure episodes
- CVA
- Chest pain / CAD / LVF
- Haemoptysis and haemetemesisepisodes
- Epistaxisepisodes
- Vertigo / LOC / hyponatremiaepisodes
- Hypoglycaemia / hyperglycaemia (high) / Ketoacidosisepisodes
- Dyspnoea / COPDepisodes
- Malignant Hypertensionepisodes
- Abdominal colic (Renal colic, appendicitis . Pancreatitis)episodes
- Fan with deformities (fractures)episodes
- Foreign body Nose & Earepisodes
- Regular dialysis cases with distressepisodes
- ADD with low BPepisodes
- Hyperpyrexia with severe dehydrationepisodes
- Cases referred from other hospitals / Primary centresepisodes
- Acute urinary retention / severe constipation.episodes
Every effort is made to be friendly and courteous to patients and make him feel that he receives sympathetic as well as efficient care in casualty.