Some of the salient features of the hospital include:

• Transparency: The Hospital promotes healthy communication with the patients to ensure transparency in treatments. The centre makes sure that the patients and their family members are well informed at all times and involve them in the decision-making process.
• Integrated Treatments: The treatment protocol varies from patient to patient, depending upon their unique medical needs. The therapeutic management plan for every patient is curated very carefully, ensuring maximum benefit.
• Hygiene and Infection Control: The hospital adheres to very stringent benchmarks when it comes to ensuring hygiene and infection control and has an active antimicrobial stewardship programme directed at minimizing the risks of nosocomial infections.
• State-Of-The-Art Facilities: The centre is committed to innovation and technology. It continuously provides the latest cutting edge technologies to cater to the ever-changing needs of the patients.
• A Multidisciplinary Team of Experts: Every patient under the care at BLK-Max leverages the benefits of a team-based approach that puts them at the epicentre. A multidisciplinary team of experts, hailing from different specialities, work in close coordination to plan the best treatment strategy for the patient.

The type of treatment patients undergo at the BLK-Max Centre for Critical Care depends on the unique medical needs of the patient. The team at the centre consists of intensivists, physicians, surgeons, paediatricians, and neonatologists, clinical microbiologists and support staff like specialized nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians, clinical pharmacists, specialized trained nurses, physician assistants, and child specialists to provide critical care.

Some of the advanced technologies that the centre offers include:

• Non-invasive ventilation-CPAP& BIPAP
• Invasive ventilation including Lung Protective Ventilation, Prone Ventilation, HFNC, Recruitment Maneuvers, APRV, Intellivent
• Extracorporeal therapies Like ECMO, ECCOR, Cytokine and Endotoxin absorption filters
• Haemodialysis
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
• SLOW Low0Efficiency Dialysis (SLED)
• Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)
• Cardiac Pacing
• Video-bronchoscopy
• Bronchoalveolar lavage
• Upper and GI Endoscopy (to control bleeding)
• Electrocardiography (ECG) & Holter
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Echocardiography
• Ultrasound and Venous Doppler
• Computed Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Nuclear Imaging

The ICU at BLK-Max Centre for Critical Care caters to the management of all patients with a life-threatening illness or postoperative surgical complications after major surgical procedures. The centre is equipped with a dedicated unit for various emergency conditions, such as:

• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (NSICU)
• Gastroenterology Intensive Care Unit (GICU)
• Organ Transplant Intensive Care Unit (TICU)