Medical emergencies arrive unexpected. But behind every emergency is a person deeply loved by someone; a parent, partner, child, sibling, or friend. That is why every second, every decision, and every intervention matters. We understand the trust families place in us during these critical moments, and our emergency team is committed to uphold this trust placed upon us, with urgency, expertise, and compassion.
Advanced Emergency Care. Built Around Rapid Response, Expertise, and Life-Saving Outcomes.
Emergencies such as a sudden injury, stroke, cardiac arrest or other unexpected critical illness can change a person’s life upside down within seconds. The quality of care delivered during these critical moments can influence one’s chances of survival, recovery, and long-term outcomes.
At SIMS Hospitals, the Department of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care serves as a referral destination for complex medical, surgical and trauma care emergencies across Chennai and beyond.
Our dedicated team is fully equipped to deliver round-the-clock emergency services for patients of all ages via, specialist emergency physicians, trauma care teams, critical care experts, and Boston-trained advanced paramedics. Here, emergency is managed through coordinated multidisciplinary approach, supported by dedicated emergency operating theatres, advanced imaging, emergency haemodialysis, high-acuity resuscitation bays, and seamless access to every major specialty.
From the very first emergency call we receive to definitive treatments, every aspect of care is designed to minimise the delays and increase the patients chances of survival, recovery, and long-term wellbeing.
Our trauma teams provide protocol-driven management of road traffic accidents, head injuries, spinal trauma, burns, fractures and multi-system injuries, supported by dedicated emergency operating theatres and 24/7 specialist expertise.
Heart attacks, severe asthma, respiratory failure, sepsis and metabolic emergencies require immediate intervention. Our emergency physicians initiate treatment without delay coordinating seamlessly across multidisciplinary specialist including cardiac, pulmonary and critical care teams.
Dedicated emergency stroke pathways that provide rapid assessment, imaging and treatment, enabling timely thrombolysis and specialist neurological interventions.
We provide expert care for specialised high-risk emergencies like poisoning, drug overdose, snake envenomation and chemical exposures. Our team delivers protocol-driven care supported by antidote.
Certain medical emergencies require urgent dialysis to stabilise life-threatening conditions. Our team provides rapid renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury, severe electrolyte disturbances and toxin removal.
Our team provides comprehensive range of advanced emergency procedures performed within the department by specialist emergency physicians, including advanced airway management, arterial line (A-line) insertion, central venous line (C-line) placement, dialysis line insertion, intercostal drain (ICD) insertion, pericardiocentesis, haemodialysis, and POCUS-guided procedures.
From critically ill children to obstetric and gynaecological emergencies, our emergency teams provide rapid stabilisation and coordinated specialist care supported by established neonatal and critical care pathways.
Emergency care starts at the scene not at the hospital door. Our ALS ambulance fleet and Boston-trained advanced paramedics provide advanced pre-hospital assessment, resuscitation and stabilisation, ensuring treatment begins as early as possible.
We provide professional, structured management of mass casualty incidents, disaster triage, and all medico-legal cases, with established protocols for documentation, inter-agency coordination, and large-scale emergency response.
The procedural depth and infrastructure at SIMS Emergency allows our emergency team to manage and stabilise the vast majority of critical presentations entirely within the emergency department, reducing transfer times, minimising handover delays, and keeping the patient under continuous specialist oversight.
The department performs a comprehensive range of advanced emergency procedures including:
Life-Saving Care Starts Before Hospital Arrival
Emergency care should start at the scene and not at the hospital door. From roadside emergencies and cardiac arrests to stroke and major trauma, whatever the emergency be, our advanced life-support ambulance network, Boston-trained paramedics, emergency physicians, trauma teams and critical care specialists function as a single integrated emergency response system to ensure the treatments to start from the spot.
Fully equipped with multipara monitors, mechanical ventilators, intravenous infusion pumps, defibrillators, and advanced resuscitation equipment for simultaneous management of multiple critical patients.
Round-the-clock CT scanning, MRI, digital X-ray, and POCUS situated immediately within or adjacent to the emergency department, eliminating transfer delays for critically ill patients requiring urgent imaging.
Two state-of-the-art modular operating rooms exclusively dedicated to life-saving emergency and trauma surgical interventions.
Renal replacement therapy infrastructure within the emergency setting for immediate management of acute kidney injury, hyperkalaemia, and toxin clearance.
Dedicated clinical zones for patient stabilisation, laceration repair, fracture management, and acute pain management, all performed within the emergency department without transfer.
Video laryngoscopy, fibreoptic intubation, surgical airway capability, and RSI protocols for the most challenging airway emergencies.
Real-time haemodynamic monitoring for shock identification, cardiac output assessment, and intensive management of the critically unstable patient.
24/7 on-site laboratory services and pharmacy integrated along with the emergency department.
Watching your child breathe comfortably after a severe asthma attack, or hearing your loved one's voice again after a major stroke or helping a trauma patient return to their home back after a life-threatening accident. These moments that define and evaluate the efficiency emergency care and treatment.
At SIMS Hospitals, we understand the trust families have place in us with their beloved one’s life, during the most critical moments. Therefore, our emergency team is fully committed to uphold this trust placed upon us, with urgency, expertise, and compassion.
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Trauma & Emergency
Senior Consultant
Diploma in Emergency Medicine | MD in Accident & Emergency Medicine | MRCEM – Member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK
Trauma & Emergency
Consultant
MD – Physician, MRCEM – Member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK Fellowship in Emergency Medicine Fellowship in ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) Diploma in Diabetes Management Certificate in Critical Care Ultrasound (USG)
Trauma & Emergency
Consultant
MBBS DNB – Anesthesiology EPHM (Executive Programme in Healthcare Management) – IIM Calcutta (IIM-C)
Trauma & Emergency
Senior Consultant
MBBS, MD in Accident & Emergency Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
Consultant – Critical Care Medicine
MBBS, DNB (Emergency Medicine), DrNB (Critical Care Medicine), MNAMS, FICM, MBA (Hospital Administration)
Critical Care Medicine
Consultant – Critical Care Medicine
MBBS, DNB (Anaesthesia), IDCCM, EDIC (European Diploma in Critical Care)
Critical Care Medicine
Senior Consultant
MBBS, DA, DNB (Anaesthesiology), IDCCM, PhD (AI in Critical Care)