Department Of
Emergency Medicine
In an emergency, every decision matter but the first step stands most crucial. We ensure that our first step covers it all!
At RIMC, Department of Emergency Medicine's acute emergency response starts right from the minute you set your foot in or call our emergency services. To ensure our patients get the swiftest response, we have an advanced BLS/ACLS /trauma ambulance network with a fleet of world class ambulances catering to a radius of more than 50 kms in and around Chennai. Our highlight is that we have senior emergency specialist on-call round-the-clock who know exactly how best to handle any kind of emergencies. But above all of these, we make critical decisions accurately within seconds because no one knows better about emergencies, saving time, and saves lives. We are honoured to be considered having the best emergency medicine doctors in Chennai
Being a quaternary international medical facility, we have protocol-based treatments. We have a strong polytrauma team, cardiac arrest team. We follow the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). The highlight of our emergency department is the introduction of fast track emergency room, the first of its kind in Chennai, to reduce patient waiting time and give personalised care to all non-emergent patients (CTAS 4 & 5) who present to the emergency care in Chennai.
In addition to being world class and best emergency medicine hospitals in Chennai, we have strategically located modular operating rooms meant exclusively for emergency cases and a state of the art, round the clock radiology services. Our ambulances operate round the clock and are well equipped to provide good clinical care right from the site of emergency in initiative treatment and stabilizing the patient till the patient arrives to the hospital, which is called the prehospital care and that's not all,even our emergency paramedics are proficient in using high tech equipment such as ventilators, defibrillators,intravenous fluids and administering lifesaving drugs. To further our commitment, we have also partnered with many other Institutions and standalone emergency centres and medical centres in and around the radius of 5 to 10 km from Rela Institute. This is to ensure that not even a single minute is lost in the critical hours.