Introduction
The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine provides an academic structure for the activities involved in the care of critically ill children in the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and the St. Louis Children's Hospital Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units. The primary goal of the division is excellence in the care of critically ill children through a scientific approach to clinical practice, attention to education, and basic and clinical research.
What to find
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Medical Director - Nikoleta Kolovos, M.D.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital is equipped to provide the highest level of care to critically ill children. The unit has capacity for up to 24 patients and averages approximately 2,000 admissions per year. Our team is multidisciplinary and is dedicated to the care of infants and children with respiratory failure, central nervous system dysfunction, trauma, and other medical and surgical diseases.
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
Medical Director - Avihu Gazit, M.D.
The Maxine Clark and Bob Fox Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), located in the heart center, cares cares for the most critically ill cardiac patients. From newborns to young-adults this state of the art unit has capacity for up to 12 patients, all accomodated to private rooms. It averages approximately 600 admissions per year and is staffed with a team to care specifically for children with cardiovascular dysfunction or who have undergone corrective surgery for congenital heart disease, heart or lung transplantation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Rapid Response Team
Medical Director - Nikoleta Kolovos, M.D.
The Rapid Response Team was launched in July 2008 and consists of critical care physicians and advanced practice nurses as well as respiratory therapists. These ICU clinicians bring their expertise as early as possible to the patient's bedside upon rapid response team activation. When parents, medical care providers, and even non-medical care staff suspect that a child needs urgent help, they may activate the rapid response team. The team will evaluate the child and provide any treatment or intervention that may be needed as well as expedite the transfer to our PICU or CICU, if necessary. The Rapid Response Team is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program (PNCP)
Medical Director - Jose Pineda, M.D.
Coming soon...
Respiratory Care Department
Medical Director - Dr. Phineas Oren
Coming soon...
Pediatric Transport Team
Medical Director - Celeste Capers, M.D.
St. Louis Children's Hospital offers the most extensive and experienced critical care transport teams in the midwest. Each mission is staffed with specially trained physicians as well as critical care nurses and paramedics. The care given is also tailored, specifically, to the individual child being transported. If any changes occur while en route to SLCH, the team has the ability to communicate these to the receiving unit so that the child will receive the care he or she needs. Although the team has flown missions across the United States and into Canada, the primary response area includes hospitals throughout Missouri and Illinois. The transport team is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.