Goals
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The unit receives critical cases from inside or outside the hospital and provides care for them through faculty members and nursing staff (most of whom are graduates of the College of Nursing) who are well trained to care for these cases by traveling abroad or Training programs at various universities. These cases include coma, respiratory failure, heart failure, liver and kidney failure, and severe bacterial infections.
Expanding the pediatric critical care service in the Delta region and creating and empowering the scientific community for specialization throughout Egypt - World-class services that every child deserves
- Diagnosing and treating critically ill children at Mansoura University Hospital Children Communicating with all hospitals in the region for consultation and transporting critically ill children among them Providing the educational role of pediatricians with parents for early detection of serious diseases in children.
- Training pediatricians from all over the country in the field of critical care for children.
- Training Nurses across the country in pediatric critical care.
Achievements
- Scientific cooperation between the unit and other units in Egypt Scientific cooperation between the unit and the intensive care unit in England.
- Performing cutting-edge scientific research in the field of pediatric critical care which is published in a series of international publications.
- Beginning to establish the Egyptian Society for Pediatric Intensive Care www.espic.org.
- Awarded membership of the World Federation of Pediatric Critical Care Societies www.wfpiccs.org.
- The unit currently holds a seat on the WFPICCS Board of Directors and the position of WFPICCS Ambassador to Egypt.
- The unit organized two conferences in 2007 and 2009, and the third conference was organized in 2010 in cooperation with ESPIC. The unit organizes scientific meetings and regular training workshops in pediatric emergency and critical care.
Future Outlook
- Increasing the unit's capacity to accept 11 children into critical care.
- Providing the number of beds for children in critical condition.
- High ability to communicate with other hospitals to transfer and consult on issues related to critical cases.
- Providing (5) intensive care consultant doctors, (2) assistant teachers, (4) specialized resident doctors, and 110 trained nurses.
- Developing the unit to be the first in training and one of the scientific and educational service providers in Delta.
- Receiving critically ill children from the Delta region.