The University of Iowa Children's Hospital is the only comprehensive health care center in Iowa offering the full range of Pediatric Critical Care therapies, including:
- High-frequency ventilation
- Continuous renal replacement therapy,
- Extracorporeal life support (ECMO, LVAD)
- Organ transplantation
Fast Facts
- A new, state-of-the-art 16 bed PICU opened in March 2004; an expansion of this PICU to 20 beds opened in February 2009.
- Fellows’ clinical assignments are all carried out at one location, University of Iowa Children's Hospital.
- The PICU has ~800 admissions/year and an average daily census of 13 patients.
- Our congenital heart surgery program includes >150 operative cases/year and PICU fellows manage all of these patients.
- We are the designated level 1 Pediatric Trauma Service.
- The PICU has primary responsibility for management of all surgical patients.
- Fellows will have a 1 month experience on the CV surgery service during the second year to have exposure to surgical techniques, cardiac anesthesia and the role of the perfusionist.
From their clinical experiences and our wide array of teaching conferences, our fellows receive excellent training in pediatric critical care.
Example of 3-year Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Monthly Assignments
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