Pediatric cardiac intensive care supports children with serious heart problems. These include children recovering from heart surgery, those with heart failure, inflamed heart muscle, dangerous rhythm problems or heart defects present from birth. A child's heart is small, and even a minor change in rhythm or pressure can matter.

Families seeking critical care for children in Mumbai with heart problems will find that the care includes continuous heart monitoring, frequent blood tests, and echocardiography. Medicines support the heart's pumping and control blood pressure, and fluids are adjusted carefully because the heart can be easily overloaded. The cardiology team and the surgeons review the child together, and parents are shown what the monitors mean.

Cardiac intensive care services include:

• Care After Heart Surgery: Close monitoring of rhythm, blood pressure, bleeding and breathing in the first hours and days, with pain control and gradual return to feeding and activity.
• Heart Failure Support: Medicines that help the heart pump, careful fluid balance, and monitoring of kidney function, with decisions on further treatment made in collaboration with the cardiology team.
• Rhythm Problem Management: Continuous ECG monitoring and prompt treatment of dangerously fast or slow heartbeats, including emergency measures if the rhythm fails.
• Echocardiography and Review: Bedside ultrasound of the heart shows pumping, valves and fluid around the heart, guiding changes in treatment.