What is Critical Care Technology?
The Critical Care Technology students will be working with critically ill patients in the intensive care units (ICU) of hospitals and nursing homes. The critical care technology students will be learning about all the medical equipment that are essential for critical care patients that keep them stable. The critical care technology students are required to set up and connect the life support equipment to critically ill patients. They are also responsible to monitor the critically ill patients and record the readings and observations from the connected equipment. They are also required to provide the recorded data to the physicians. They are required to act immediately in case of the emergency. The critical care technology students of all the hospitals worldwide played a very crucial role in the Covid-19 pandemic situation in reducing the fatality rates to a large extent.
The critical care technology students are given training on the first-aid and they are required to perform first-aid in case of emergency. They are required to administer emergency medicine to the patients to keep them stable during a medical emergency until the doctor arrives. The critical care technology students are also responsible to maintain and repair the emergency medical equipment and are also responsible to assist the nursing and other paramedical staff while using the equipment for patient monitoring activities.
The critical care technology students are also required to handle other equipment such as dialysis machines, ventilators, defibrillators, blood analysers, CAT scanners, infusion pumps and various other equipment in the hospitals and nursing homes.
The B.Sc critical care technology is the 3-years degree programme that can be joined after the completion of the 12th class. The students who want to join the B.Sc critical care technology should have studied any of the following three subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Zoology/Botany in their PUC or 10+2 from the recognised board.
Reasons to choose Critical Care Technology
The critical care technology is the most underrated course in the medical fraternity. The irony is that critical care technologists play a decisive role in case of medical emergencies but still the majority of them are unaware of this fantastic course. The critical care technologists are required to look after the patients in intensive care units (ICU) and are responsible to monitor patients regularly. The monitoring job cannot be done by a physician so critical care technologists come into picture to carry out this important task.
