Department

Professor & Head	Prof. Dr. Kaniz Fatema MBBS. FCPS (Medicine), MD (CCM), FRCP (Edin)
Professor	Prof. Dr. Fatema Ahmed MBBS, MD (CCM), FCPS (Med)
Assistant Professor	Dr. Debasish Kumar Saha MBBS, FCPS (Medicine) MD (Critical Care Medicine) ,  Dr. Madhurima Saha FCPS(Med) MD (Critical Care Medicine), Dr. Rozina Sultana MBBS FCPS (Medicine) MD (Critical Care Medicine),  Dr. Suraiya Nazneen MBBS, FCPS (Medicine), MD (Critical Care Medicine),
Associate Professor	Dr. Debasish Kumar Saha MBBS, FCPS (Medicine) MD (Critical Care Medicine),
Assistant Professor	Dr. Madhurima Saha, MBBS, FCPS (Med) MD (Critical Care Medicine) Dr. Suraiya Nazneen MBBS, FCPS (Medicine), MD (Critical Care Medicine) Dr. Rozina Sultana MBBS, FCPS (Medicine) MD (Critical Care Medicine) Dr. Israt Jahan FCPS (Medicine) MD (Critical Care Medicine),
Registrar	Dr. Taslim Begum MBBS, MD (Critical Care Medicine)

Medical Officers:        DCMO – 2

                                     SMO – 4

                                      MO - 10

 

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Patient Statistics in the year July 2024-June 2025:

Total number of beds: 30

ICU patient Census in the year July 2024-June 2025:

Total patients :2079

                        Total paying pt:  :1868                                

                          Total Nonpaying   :181

 Staf                             :17

 Staff relative                 :46

 Direct admission          :966

Transfer in from indoor: 1113               

Transfer and death:

Total no of discharge (Direct discharge) :329
Transfer out to indoor                              :1030
Total number of deaths                            :708 (34.05%)

 

Clinical facilities provided:

Continuous Cardiac, Respiratory, Pulse oximetry monitoring.

Mechanical ventilators: 20 (Puritan & Bennet- 840), 7 (wide spread solution /Event)

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation by one handheld BiPAP machine & by all MVs.

Three Emergency Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Trolleys

Two Defibrillators

Syringe pumps & Infusion pumps.

IPD & CAPD

Bedside Hemodialysis (two HD machine) with RO machine & SLED (Sustained low efficiency HD)

24 hours ABG with dedicated ABG machine

CCTV (13) camera placed in the patient care area (ICU) to monitor patient care by Nurses.

Bed side Bronchoscopy for Broncho alveolar lavage

Bedside Ultrasonogram and Echocardiography

Bedside portable X-ray

Academic facilities:

ICU Library stocked with text books and lecture CDs on Critical Care Medicine and other clinical specialties. Total number of volumes of books: 250(Approx.)

Library / Conference room equipped Slide projector, one computer terminal. It has a seating capacity of 25 participants.

Computer terminal with printer in patient care area for data processing and recordkeeping.

Internet connection & networking in all Computer terminals Wi-Facility.

Digital camera & Video camera used for Clinical research.

 

 

Academic activities:

CPR workshops:  ACLS and BLS workshops arranged : total 6

BLS workshops in BCPS

Weekly clinical meetings held as part of CME for medical officers, students of MD (CCM), FCPS (Medicine), MRCP and nurses working in ICU.

Activities include case presentation, lectures, video presentation, and mortality review.

Combined Lecture classes for all MD (CCM) students (BIRDEM Academy, BSMMU, DMC) - Final part and phase B; As a coordinated program

Monthly Departmental Academic meeting

Monthly Departmental Mortality meeting

Alternate week Journal club presentation

Monthly Departmental Infection control committee meeting

Ongoing MD (CCM) course of BMU

Academic Activities of Faculty:

Prof Dr Kaniz Fatema

Examiner of clinical, oral & thesis examination of phase B MD CCM

Question setter of both phase A & B MD CCM

Examiner of clinical examination of phase A MD CCM

IOE Examiner of Medicine FCPS final part

OSPE examiner of FCPS Medicine mid-term & final part

MCPS Examiner (Medicine)

Examiner of MRCP paces

Hall in-charge of part 1 FCPS

Invigilator of final part FCPS 

Prof Dr Fatema Ahmed

Examiner of clinical & thesis examination of phase B MD CCM

Examiner of clinical examination of phase A MD CCM

OSPE examiner of FCPS Medicine mid-term & final part

Invigilator of final part FCPS 

Dr Debasish Kumar Saha, Dr Madhurima Saha, Dr Suraiya Nazneen, Dr Rozina Sultana & Dr Ishrat Jahan

Invigilator of part I FCPS 

 

Publications from Department:

1. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Hoque MM et al. Hemodynamic tolerability of Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury. BIRDEM Med J 2016; 6(2): 84-90.
2. Fatema K, Ahsan ASMA, Barai L, Ahmed F, Haq A, Faruq MO. Bacterial profile and their antibiotic resistance in an ICU of Bangladesh: Comparison of four studies from 2004 to 2011. Bangladesh Crit Care J 2016; 4(2): 79-85.
3. Fatema K, Ahsan ASMA, Barai L, Faruq MO, Ahmed F, Saha DK et al. Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Blood Isolates in Patients of Septicemia in ICU: Single Centre Observation. Bangladesh Crit Care J 2016; 4(2): 100-4.
4. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Ahsan ASMA, Iqbal S, Ahmed F, Sultana MM. Hemodynamically Unstable Acute Kidney Injury Patients treated with Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis: Outcome in an ICU of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Med Res Counc  Bull 2016; 42:14-20.
5. Fatema K, Haque A, Ahsan ASMA, Ahmed F, Saha DK, Saha M, Nazneen S, Sultana R, Jahan I, Begum T, Ahmed KS. Clinicopathological profile and outcome of critically ill patients suffering from Dengue: Single centre experience during COVID pandemic. Bangladesh Crit Care J September 2023; 11 (2): 68-74.
6. Fatema K, Barai L. Infection Infection prevention and control in health care settings during COVID-19 pandemic. Birdem Med J 2020; 10, COVID Supplement: 81-92.
7. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Ahsan ASMA, Ahmed F. Patterns of AKI patients requiring Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis admitted in an ICU of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Crit Care J 2014; 2(2): 68-70.
8. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Areef ASMA, Tamanna RJ, Ahmed F, Sultana A et al. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome with very high serum creatine phosphokinase: a case report. BIRDEM Med J 2012; 2(1): 56-59.
9. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Ahsan ASMA, Ahmed F, Saha D, Afroz F et al. Disseminated Meliodosis presenting as Septic Shock: An Endemic Disease of Bangladesh. International Journal of Current Medical And Applied Sciences 2015; 5(3): 200-2.
10. Fatema K, Ahsan ASMA, Barai L, Saha DK, Afroze SR, Faruq MO et al. A case of fatal Meliodosis presenting as septic arthritis and septicemia. Bangladesh Crit Care J 2015; 3(2): 74-76.
11. Fatema K, Tanbeen S, Ashek MSH et al. An elderly lady with tetany and brain calcification. Bangladesh Crit Care J September 2024; 12 (2): 160-162.
12. Fatema K. Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship and Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Redefining the role of Critical Care Physicians. Bangladesh Crit Care J March 2017; 5(1): 1-2.
13. Fatema K. Understanding long COVID: Overcoming diagnostic dilemma. Bangladesh Crit Care J September 2022; 10(2): 74-5.
14. Fatema K, Barai L, Faruq MO et al. Antimicrobial resistance pattern in ICU of a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. Paper presented at: International Critical Care Congress and 16th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2010 February 10-14; Hyderabad, India.
15. Fatema K, Faruq MO, Ahsan ASMA, Iqbal S, Sultana MM. Sustained Low Efficiency Dialysis in the ICU Patients with AKI: Experience in a resource poor country (Abstract). 3rd SG-ANZICS Programme Book 2015: 76.
16. Demographic, clinical and laboratory findings of severe and non-severe COVID 19 cases: one-year experience at a private set-up in Bangladesh. Madhurima Saha, Debasish Kumar Saha, Chandra Shekhar Bala, Pankaj Kanti Sutradhar, Md. Asif Hasan, Chowdhury Nawshin Ferdous, Shabnaz Muniya, Nazia Zabeen. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 12. Number 2, May 2022. PP 129-35.
17. Comparison of central venous catheter related deep venous thrombosis according to insertion site in an intensive care unit of Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Suraiya Nazneen, ASM Areef Ahsan, Madhurima Saha, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Rozina Sultana. Journal of Medicine, Vol 23. Number 23, January 2022. PP 20-3.
18. Prognostic value of SOFA score and SIRS criteria for ICU mortality in adult sepsis patients admitted to the ICU of a tertiary care Hospital of Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Suraiya Nazneen, Rozina Sultana. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 10. Number 2, May 2021. PP 84-9
19. Epidemiology and outcome of COVID-19: experience at a private set-up in Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, Chandra Shekhar Bala, Pankaj Kanti Sutradhar. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 10. COVID Supplement, 2020. PP 12-7.
20. Comparison of mechanical complications of central venous catheter according to the insertion site in an intensive care unit of Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Suraiya Nazneen, ASM Areef Ahsan, Madhurima Saha, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Rozina Sultana. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 10. Number 2, May 2020. PP 115-9.
21. Frequency of Burnout Syndrome in an Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Muhammad Abdur Razzak, Madhurima Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Suraiya Nazneen, Rozina Sultana.  BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 9. Number 1, January 2019. PP 30-4.
22. Risk Estimation of Aortic Stiffness in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease on Maintenance Haemodialysis. Muhammad Abdur Razzak, Debasish Kumar Saha, Muhammad Ehsan Jalil, Mohammad Omar Faruque Miah, Abu Noim Md Abdul Hai, Abdul Latif, Md Rasul Amin, Tofael Ahammod, Kaniz Fatima, Shudhanshu Kumar Saha. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 9. Number 1, January 2019. PP 59-62
23. Calvarial tuberculosis – a case report. Debasish Kumar Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan,  Mohammad Omar Faruq, Kaniz Fatema, Madhurima Saha, Fatema Ahmed. Bangladesh  Critical Care Journal. Vol 4. Number 1, March: 2016. PP 41
24. Hepatic abscess as presenting feature of Melioidosis: A case report. Debasish Kumar Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan, Mohammad Omar Faruq, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Madhurima Saha. BIRDEM Medical Journal. Vol 6. No 1, January: 2016. PP 43-5 .
25. Clinical Image: Fahr Disease. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, Mohammad Omar Faruq, ASM Areef Ahsan, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, Vol 3. Number 2, September: 2015. PP 81
26. Clinical Image: Lateral Medullary Syndrome. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, Suraiya Nazneen. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, Vol 5. Number 1, March:2017. PP 72-3
27. Ischemic stroke due to Protein C deficiency. Debasish Kumar Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan, Kaniz Fatema, Madhurima Saha, Fatema Ahmed, Md Asrafuzzaman, MM Morshed, Farhana Raz, Md. Rashidul Hassan, Abdullah Al Ahmed, Md. Harisur Rahman, Natasha Rahman. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, Vol 4. Number 2, September: 2016.PP 123-4
28. Medical Quiz: Images and Answer to Medical Quiz: Images. Debasish Kumar Saha. Madhurima Saha, Reezwan Islam. BIRDEM Medical Journal. Vol 5. Number 2, July: 2015. PP 119 & 124.
29. Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: A Case Report. Debasish Kumar Saha, ASM Areef Ahsan, Mohammad Omar Faruq, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Madhurima Saha, Reezwan Ialam. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, Vol 3. Number 1, March: 2015.PP 39-41.
30. Medical Quiz: Images and Answer to Medical Quiz Images. Debasish Kumar Saha. BIRDEM Medical Journal.Vol 5. No 1, January: 2015. PP 54 & 64-6
31. In-hospital prognostic value of on admission creatinine clearance in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Madhurima Saha, M M Zahurul Alam Khan, Md Zahid Alam, Mohammad Omar Faruq, A S M Areef Ahsan, Debasish Kumar Saha. Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, Official Journal of Bangladesh Society of Critical Care Medicine.Vol.3, Number1,March:15.PP:3-6
32. Chikungunya viral infection requiring intensive care-Experience in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Bangladesh. Suraiya Nazneen,Madhurima Saha,Rakib Hossain,A.S.M. Areef Ahsan,Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Debasish KumarSaha,Rozina sultana. Birdem Medical Journal,Vol 8. No 1, January: 2018;PP 16-20.
33. Prognostic value of SOFA score and SIRS criteria for ICU mortality in adult sepsis patients admitted to the ICU of a tertiary care Hospital of Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, A.S.M. Areef Ahsan, Kaniz Fatema, Fatema Ahmed, Suraiya Nazneen, Rozina Sultana.  BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 11. Number 2, May 2021. PP 84-89.
34. Epidemiology and outcome of COVID-19: experience at a private set-up in Bangladesh. Debasish Kumar Saha, Madhurima Saha, Chandra Shekhar Bala, Pankaj Kanti Sutradhar. BIRDEM Medical Journal, Vol 10. COVID Supplement, 2020. PP 12-7.
35. Demographic, clinical and laboratory findings of severe and non-severe COVID-19 cases: one-year experience at a private set-up of Bangladesh. Madhurima Saha,  Debasish Kumar Saha, Chandra Shekhar Bala, Pankaj Kanti Sutradhar, Md Asif Hasan, Chowdhury Nawshin Ferdous, Shabnaz Muniya, Nazia Zabeen. BIRDEM Medical Journal, 12(2), 129–135. https://doi.org/10.3329/birdem.v12i2.59619 (2022)

 

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