Intensive and Intermediate Care Units

Medical Center of South Arkansas offers an eight bed Intensive Care Unit. Continuous monitoring of the patient's condition is accomplished by advanced equipment designed to closely observe a patient's vital signs while allowing a restful recovery. Intensive care nurses specially trained in critical care skills, arrhythmia interpretation, hemodynamic monitoring, and advanced adult and pediatric life support techniques are available 24 hours a day. They are also trained to anticipate the needs of patients and to help calm any fears or anxieties. Physicians and nurses maintain close contact with each other and the patient's immediate family to address special needs and answer questions. In addition, other healthcare professionals are readily available to collaborate with the physician and nurses to meet each patient's individual needs.

The Med Center also offers an eight bed intermediate care unit. In this area patients are monitored by portable heart monitors. This allows patients to become more active as their healing process continues. Families are also encouraged to actively participate in the patient's care through an expanded visiting time.