Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Critical care fellows rotate primarily in the CVICU, the NSICU, and the SICU. Fellows will also have rotations in the medicine ICU (MICU) and the trauma ICU (TICU). These rotations expose fellows to many different aspects of critical care medicine. Fellows will also spend a month focusing on point-of-care ultrasonography in the ICU and have an elective month, including opportunities in transesophageal echocardiography, nephrology, hepatology, infectious disease, nutrition medicine, transfusion medicine, and numerous others that are designed to further hone their critical care knowledge and expertise.

In the CVICU our team works diligently to care for critically ill patients following complex cardiothoracic surgery, including cardiac revascularizations, valve replacements surgeries, lung resections, esophageal resections, and both heart and lung transplants. The multidisciplinary team also provides care to patients requiring various mechanical cardiac support devices such as right or left ventricular assist devices (VADs), total artificial hearts (TAH), and for those patients who require veno-arterial or veno-venous extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

In the NSICU, our multidisciplinary team works closely with stroke neurologists and neurosurgeons to care for a variety of intracranial pathologies including ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, intracranial tumors, and patients with status epilepticus, as well as, to mitigate the effect of pre-existing or co-existing multi-organ dysfunction in these patients.

In the SICU, the Division of Critical Care Medicine provides consultative critical care to postoperative surgical patients admitted to the ICU following abdominal organ transplantation, ENT, plastics, urologic and other types of general and specialized surgeries.