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Expert Critical Care When Your Child Needs It Most
When your child faces a serious medical crisis, every parent’s first thought is the same: “Will they be okay?” At Sayee Superspeciality Hospital in Padappai, our dedicated team understands this fear intimately. We’ve built our pediatric intensive care unit around one simple promise—to treat your child with the same urgency, expertise, and compassion we would our own.
Our PICU combines advanced medical technology with deeply human care, ensuring that while we focus on your child’s medical needs, we never lose sight of the scared little person who just wants to feel better, or the worried parents who need clear answers and genuine support.
What We Treat in Our Pediatric ICU
Children arrive at our intensive care unit facing a wide range of serious conditions. Our team is equipped to handle the complexity and urgency these situations demand.
Critical Medical Emergencies
We care for children experiencing severe breathing problems that require ventilator support, life-threatening infections including sepsis, high fevers accompanied by seizures or altered consciousness, serious dehydration from persistent vomiting or diarrhea, and complications from chronic conditions like asthma or diabetes. Each case receives individualized attention based on the child’s specific needs and medical history.
Post-Surgical Intensive Monitoring
Some children need close observation after major surgery. We provide this specialized care, monitoring vital signs continuously, managing pain effectively, watching for complications, and adjusting treatment in real-time as recovery progresses.
Newborn Critical Care
Our smallest patients receive age-appropriate intensive support. We treat premature babies who need help breathing and feeding, newborns with jaundice requiring intensive phototherapy, infants with serious infections, and babies born with complications requiring immediate intervention. Our equipment and protocols are specifically designed for these fragile patients.
Trauma and Accident Care
When children are injured in accidents, our emergency response team provides immediate stabilization and ongoing critical care. We handle head injuries, severe burns, multiple trauma, and poisoning cases with coordinated expertise across multiple specialties.
How Our PICU Works
Walking into an intensive care unit can be overwhelming. Understanding what to expect may ease some anxiety.
Advanced Monitoring and Equipment
Your child will be connected to monitors that track heart rate, breathing, oxygen levels, and blood pressure continuously. This isn’t scary—it’s protective. These monitors allow our nurses to spot even subtle changes instantly. We use ventilators designed specifically for children when breathing Your child will be connected to monitors that track heart rate, breathing, oxygen levels, and blood pressure continuously. This isn’t scary—it’s protective. These monitors allow our nurses to spot even subtle changes instantly. We use ventilators designed specifically for children when breathing
Round-the-Clock Expert Care
Our intensivist leads a team that includes specially trained ICU nurses (typically one nurse for every one or two patients), respiratory therapists who manage breathing support, pharmacists who ensure medication dosing is precisely right for your child’s age and weight, and support staff available at any hour. Someone is always watching, always ready to respond.
Your Role as Parents
We don’t just allow parent involvement—we encourage it. Research shows children heal better when their parents are present. You can talk to your child, hold their hand, and once stable, participate in comfort care like gentle stroking or reading stories. We’ll teach you what the monitors mean, explain every medication, and answer every question, no matter how many times you need to ask.
Our Approach to Pediatric Critical Care
What makes intensive care at Sayee different isn’t just our equipment—it’s our philosophy.
Treating Children, Not Small Adults
Children’s bodies respond differently than adults to illness, medication, and treatment. Our team has specialized training in pediatric physiology. We know that a three-year-old with pneumonia needs completely different care than a teenager with the same diagnosis. We adjust everything—medication dosages, ventilator settings, fluid management—based on age, weight, and developmental stage
Evidence-Based Medicine
We follow internationally recognized protocols for pediatric critical care while tailoring treatment to each child’s unique situation. Our team stays current with the latest research, attending conferences and participating in ongoing education to bring you the most effective treatments available.
Infection Control
Sick children are vulnerable to additional infections. We maintain rigorous hygiene protocols, limit unnecessary traffic in the PICU, use HEPA air filtration, and require hand sanitization before any patient contact. These measures protect your child during their most vulnerable time.
Beyond Medical Treatment
Healing involves more than medicines and machines.
Communication That Actually Helps
Medical jargon can feel like a foreign language when you’re stressed. Our doctors explain your child’s condition in plain terms, use drawings or diagrams when helpful, provide realistic timelines for recovery, and discuss both what’s going well and what concerns remain. We schedule regular family meetings to ensure you’re never in the dark.
Emotional Support for Families
Having a child in intensive care is traumatic. We provide counseling services for parents and siblings, quiet spaces for family members to rest, assistance coordinating with extended family, and connections to parent support groups. You don’t have to face this alone.
Coordinated Care
If your child needs specialists—neurologists, surgeons, infectious disease experts—we coordinate everything. You won’t need to repeat your story to multiple doctors or wonder if everyone is on the same page. We work as one team with one goal: your child’s recovery.
Planning for Recovery
From the moment your child enters our PICU, we’re already planning for the day they leave it.
We prepare detailed discharge instructions, arrange any necessary follow-up appointments before you leave the hospital, teach you how to care for your child at home, ensure you have prescriptions and medical supplies ready, and provide 24/7 phone access to our team for post-discharge questions. Our relationship with your family doesn’t end when you go home.
Why Families Trust Sayee Superspeciality Hospital
Accessible Expert Care: Families from Padappai and nearby communities including Thiruporur, Maraimalai Nagar, and areas along the Chennai-Bengaluru highway have local access to advanced pediatric intensive care without the stress of rushing to distant city hospitals during emergencies.
Specialized Expertise: Our intensivist chose this specialty because of a passion for helping the sickest children. This isn’t general medicine—it’s a calling that requires specific training and dedication.
Transparent Practices: We maintain clear communication about your child’s condition, involve you in treatment decisions, provide honest assessments of progress and challenges, and offer upfront discussions about costs and insurance.
Proven Outcomes: Our track record speaks through the children who’ve recovered under our care and returned to normal, happy childhoods.
When to Seek Immediate Care
Trust your instincts. If something feels seriously wrong, it probably is. Seek immediate care if your child has difficulty breathing or rapid breathing, seizures or loss of consciousness, extreme lethargy or inability to wake fully, persistent high fever with rash or stiff neck, severe dehydration (no tears, no urination for many hours), blue lips or fingernails, or severe pain that isn’t improving.
Don’t hesitate or second-guess yourself. We’d rather see your child and reassure you everything is fine than have you wait at home while a condition worsens.
We're Ready When You Need Us
Medical emergencies are terrifying. But you don’t have to face them without expert help.
Our emergency department is open 24/7, and our PICU team is always ready to receive critically ill children. For emergencies, come directly—no appointment needed. For questions about your child’s symptoms or whether they need emergency care, call our hospital and ask to speak with the pediatric team.
For non-emergency consultations, vaccinations, or routine pediatric care, our outpatient clinic offers scheduled appointments during regular hours.
Contact Sayee Superspeciality Hospital at [phone number] or visit us at [address]. In an emergency, every second counts—we’re here, we’re ready, and we’re waiting to help your child.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We strongly encourage parents to be present as much as possible. While we have specific visiting hours for extended family and friends to ensure patients get adequate rest, parents typically have much more flexible access. During critical phases, we may need you to step out briefly for certain procedures, but our staff will always explain why and keep you updated. Many parents choose to stay overnight in our family waiting areas, and we'll work with you to find arrangements that support both your need to be close and your own need for rest.
This varies tremendously based on the illness or injury. Some children need intensive monitoring for just 24-48 hours after surgery and then move to a regular pediatric ward. Others with severe infections or respiratory failure might need a week or more of intensive support. We can't predict exact timelines, but we'll give you our best assessment based on your child's specific condition and update you daily on progress. Our goal is always to get your child stable and recovering as quickly as safely possible.
While we handle the vast majority of pediatric critical care cases, some situations require hyper-specialized resources—like pediatric cardiac surgery or organ transplant programs—only available at major children's hospitals in Chennai. If this becomes necessary, we'll stabilize your child, arrange transfer to an appropriate facility, coordinate with the receiving hospital's team, provide complete medical records, and ensure the transition is as smooth as possible. However, most critically ill children receive complete care right here without needing transfer.