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General Information
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) provides comprehensive, family-centered care to acutely ill medical and surgical patients who require specialized nursing care.
Patients admitted to the PICU require invasive procedures and treatments such as:
- Arterial sticks
- ECMO
- Continuous infusions, e.g., insulin, thrombolytics, vasoactive medications
- Cardioversion
- Defibrillation
- External/transthoracic pacing
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
- Mechanical ventilation, including High Frequency Oscillator Ventilation
- ICP monitoring
- Care and pressure monitoring of arterial lines and central venous lines
Common diagnoses include:
- Congenital pre- and post-operative heart defects
- Endocrine disturbances, e.g., DKA
- Trauma
- Pre- and post-transplant, e.g., renal, bone marrow and liver
- Respiratory failure/distress
- Neurological disturbances, e.g., closed head injury, seizure disorders
We are a 27-bed unit with 21 single patient rooms and 3 2-patient rooms, including:
- Patient rooms equipped with hepafilters.
- Each bed space has overhead exam lights with a dimmer switch, 2 warming lights and 2 fluorescent lights for individual illumination.
- Each bed space has 3 vacuum outlets, 2 air outlets and 3 oxygen outlets.
- 24 electrical outlets are available to each bed space.
- The unit has bedside cardio-respiratory monitoring, O2 sat monitoring and EtCO2 monitoring, as well as 4 channel pressuring monitoring capability at all bed spaces.
- There are patient call buttons and code blue buttons at each bedside.
Additional features of the unit include:
- nursing care provided by an all RN staff
- 3 central nurses’ stations
- medication rooms, formula storage areas, kitchens, equipment rooms and supply areas
- a patient playroom, a counseling room, 2 conference rooms and a laundry room located on the unit
Parents may visit 24 hours/day.
Patients range in age from neonate to 18 years.
We work with a team of pediatric intensivists (ICU physicians) and resident physicians, who are in hospital 24/7.
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