Our goal in training physicians in Critical Care Medicine is to provide them with the clinical experience and research skills necessary for their continued productivity in the area of academic pediatrics.
As such, our program is structured so that each fellow gains the clinical expertise to run a large Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the ability to teach medical students and residents effectively using a variety of modalities, and the skills necessary to develop and carry out a complete and meaningful clinical or basic science research program.
Our 20 bed PICU has approximately 1700 admissions/year and is located in a nationally ranked pediatric hospital that serves as the quarternary referral center for the region as well as serving national and international patients with diseases requiring highly specialized care. Rainbow has the only accredited Pediatric Trauma Center in the region and is the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University.
A full range of pediatric medical and surgical cases will be cared for by the fellow and ICU team, including cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, trauma, bone marrow transplant, and patients requiring technologies such as extra-corporeal life support, bedside ultrasound, continuous veno-venous hemofiltration and other renal replacement therapies and state of the art ventilator strategies.
The Division of Pediatric Critical Care also staffs a busy sedation unit which provides sedation services to approximately 2200 children per year. The pediatric pain team and palliative care services are additional activities of the division.