Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Pediatric Intensive Care

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Children's Hospital of Illinois, a 12-bed unit, has the equipment, staff and experience to provide the most critically-ill child the chance for surviving illnesses that were once considered universally fatal. Four board-certified Pediatric Intensivists and a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, along with specially trained nurses, provide conventional and advanced critical care to the following types of patients:

• Cardiothoracic surgery
• High-risk general/neuro surgery
• Medical
• Trauma

They have the capability and skill to utilize the following
technologies and offer the following services:

• Continuous hemofiltration with or without dialysis
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
• High frequency ventilation
• Intracranial pressure monitoring
• Peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis
• Pediatric Home Ventilation and high technology
• Pediatric sedation/analgesia

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