Private acute medical care
The Princess Grace Hospital provides the highest standard of round the clock acute and urgent medical care for adult patients requiring private hospital admission for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a wide spectrum of medical illness, such as cardiac and respiratory disease, metabolic problems, acute confusion, and acute infection. The Princess Grace Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre and the Intensive Care Units are crucial to the way the service runs; without that, private acute medical care could not provide all the necessary support for patients who develop life-threatening illness. Common conditions that are treated include:
- Abdominal pain
- Acute arthritis
- Acute back pain
- Acute breathlessness
- Acute febrile illnesses
- Acute jaundice
- Acute kidney injury
- Acute medicine for the elderly
- Cellulitis
- Decompensated liver disease
- Decompressed heart failure
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dehydration
- Diabetic emergencies
- Gastroenteritis
- Pneumonia
- Pyelonephritis
- Severe headache
- Suspected pulmonary embolus
- Syncopal episodes
Syncopal episodes
The Princess Grace Hospital also offers outpatient consultancy in which patients who need to access further diagnostic services available at the private acute medical care, but who do not require admission as an inpatient. An extensive diagnostic laboratory enable physician’s to complete routine and complex tests. Based within the same facility, the radiology department is also able to provide rapid access to imaging techniques such as CT scanning, ultrasound and MRI scanning. Our physician’s provide all aspects of general internal medicine expertise, offering advice and management in:
- Cardiovascular risk
- Difficult diagnostic problems
- Hypertension
- Unexplained fatigue
- Unexplained fevers
- Unusual or unexplained symptoms
Peri-operative and post-operative care
The team at the private acute and urgent medical care clinic provide an extensive range of medical care for surgical and non-surgical patients. For surgical patients, this incorporates a field of medicine known as peri-operative medicine which includes outpatient preoperative medical assessment (‘fitness for surgery’ examination), and ward level care following discharge from intensive care. Patients with pre-existing medical problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, as well as elderly patients, are often those at greatest risk of complications after major surgery. Surgical risk may be reduced by careful pre-operative evaluation of patients. These assessments can determine whether there are aspects of a patient’s health that can be medically optimised before their operation. The acute and urgent medical care clinic also provides invaluable support and standards of excellence to nonsurgical patients including cardiac and cancer patients. If the patient’s primary consultant has any concerns due to prior or newly presented co-morbidities, they can refer the patient