It provides hands-on training in critical care, surgical anesthesia, emergency care and advanced cardiac life support. This 19-bed unit is the primary intensive care unit for critically ill patients from all the medical subspecialties except cardiology. Fellows are directly involved in the management of all patients and have ample opportunity to learn diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions. The unit offers the latest monitoring equipment and electronic medical record keeping. This 20-bed unit serves more than 1,000 patients a year.
Fellows manage patients with a wide variety of primary brain and spinal cord insults.
In addition, fellows can participate in the unit's ongoing research using positron emission tomography to evaluate patient response to treatment. Fellows study the pathophysiology of medical and surgical critical illness in infants and children, learn diagnostic skills and therapeutic procedures and participate in rounds, didactic presentations, on-call and teaching of residents and medical students. The unit has 22 beds. It is the primary training base for fellows in anesthesiology and surgery critical care. The unit serves general surgical patients and patients from all the surgical specialties except cardiothoracic surgery.