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Other Clinical Specialization
Critical Care Fellows are encouraged to identify a clinical area outside of CCM to focus on.

Often, the area of Pediatric subspecialty interest identified by each Fellow becomes the framework for that Fellow's research projects within a Critical Care focus.
Curriculum
Trainees in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine receive training in a wide range of pathophysiologic as well as disease-specific states.

This training occurs both through direct patient care as well as through the Division sponsored lecture series. Specifically, the fellows Physiology and Board Review course, through a series of didactic and interactive tutorials, covers a wide range of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine topics over a 2 year period. This conference is hosted by the Division of Pharmacology and Critical Care and includes both Divisional faculty as well as outside speakers. The scope of the course is meant to review both basic physiologic processes as well as disease specific states relative to the care of PCCM patients.

Lectures cover the following topics in disease states:

  • cardiovascular physiology
  • hemodynamic assessments and therapeutics
  • arrhythmias and pacemaker physiology
  • therapy of postoperative congenital heart disease
  • congestive heart failure and treatment
  • basic cardiovascular physiology
  • respiratory failure and respiratory support
  • mechanical ventilatory support
  • ARDS
  • asthma in the Critical Care patient
  • mechanical ventilation weaning
  • acute renal failure
  • renal replacement therapies
  • pancreatitis and GI bleeding
  • nutritional support of the Critical Care patient
  • hepatic failure
  • electrolyte disturbances
  • endocrinologic emergencies
  • coma
  • intracranial hypertension
  • multiple trauma
  • shock pathophysiology and treatment
  • nosocomial infections
  • meningitis and encephalitis
  • immuno-compromised hosts
  • hematologic and oncologic emergencies
  • DIC
  • multiple traumas
  • bioethics in the Critical Care arena