General Medicine

The Division of General Medicine at SRM hospitals Mambalam is a group of specialist doctors and allied health staff who are dedicated to providing patient-centred, evidence-based medical care in a clinical environment supported by education and research. This division embodies the mission of SRM hospitals Mambalam – To bring healthcare of international standards within the reach of every individual by achieving high standards of clinical care by integrated clinical practice, education and research.

Primary care, including routine check-ups

• Diabetes management

• Mental health assessment

• Education programs

• Blood pressure and related conditions

• Stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and jaundice

• Respiratory diseases like asthma, allergies, lung infection, cough, sinusitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia

Treatment & Procedures

The department of general medicine provides treatment for the following:

• All types of fevers

• Infections affecting different organs of the body

• All metabolic diseases and endocrine diseases such as diabetes, thyroid, cholesterol, obesity.

• Blood pressure

• Tummy aches, infections like vomiting, diarrhoea and jaundice

• Infectious diseases

• Respiratory diseases like asthma, allergies, lung infection, cough, sinusitis, pneumonia & TB

• Disease of the joints and limbs, backache

• Problems like a headache, muscular weakness, epilepsy.

Overview

The dedicated team of internists at SRM Hospitals Mambalam provide outpatient and inpatient primary care services for adults and consultative services for patients with complex clinical problems.

They also provide a preoperative evaluation that helps in ensuring an uneventful and successful surgery.

Intensive-care medicine or critical-care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and management of life-threatening conditions requiring sophisticated organ support and invasive monitoring.

Intensive care is usually offered to patients who may require support for instability hypertension/ hypotension), airway or respiratory compromise (such as ventilator support), acute renal failure, potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmias, or the cumulative effects of multiple organ failures, more commonly referred to now as multiple organ dysfunction syndromes. They may also be admitted for intensive/invasive monitoring, such as the crucial hours after major surgery when deemed too unstable to transfer to a less intensively monitored unit.