Overview
The Division of Critical Care Medicine provides comprehensive and state of the art clinical care for all critically ill children admitted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In-house coverage and consultation is available 24 hours per day. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) consists of 25 intensive/intermediate care beds, all of which are located on the 6th floor of the hospital tower. In addition, the Division of Critical Care Medicine administers all transports to and from Cincinnati Children's. Staff from the Division of Critical Care Medicine also provides medical coverage for the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Cincinnati Children's.
All medical patients admitted to the PICU are primarily managed by members of the Division of Critical Care Medicine. We actively seek consultation and co-management strategies with other medical subspecialty groups at Cincinnati Children's and community physicians. Surgical patients admitted to the PICU are co-managed by members of the Division of Critical Care Medicine and the respective surgical services. We serve a diverse group of patients and are capable of expertly providing advanced support for all forms of organ system failure including respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic, hepatic, renal, and hematologic failure.
The Division of Critical Care Medicine has active and productive research programs in both basic science and clinical science. All clinical faculty members have active research efforts in either basic science research or clinical research. In addition, there are 3, PhD-level, full-time research faculty within the division, and 12 research support personnel. Our basic research approaches range from molecular biology to large animal physiology to drug development. Specific basic research programs and interests include lung inflammation, immune modulation, ischemia-reperfusion, nitric oxide biochemistry, pulmonary hypertension, heat shock and protein biology. Specific clinical research programs and interests include vascular thrombosis, status asthmaticus, respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, septic shock, nutrition, and genomics. Research activities are widely supported through various granting agencies and industry contracts.
The Division of Critical Care Medicine has an ACGME-accredited training program in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. This 3 to 4 year program provides subspecialty training for pediatricians seeking certification in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The program includes extensive clinical and research training. A portion of the research training is funded through a NIH training grant. Seven fellows are currently in the program, while 15 other fellows have graduated and are currently practicing in major PICUs throughout the country and abroad.
