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Critical Care Medicine

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine faculty work to stabilize, diagnose and manage infants, children, and adolescents with life-threatening medical and surgical problems.

• Trauma
• Hypoxic Injury (lack of oxygen)
• Acute Lung Injury
• Serious Infections
• Liver Failure
• Reversible heart and/or lung
     dysfunction, using ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)
• Cardiopulmonary Failure
• Post-operative Care
• Multi-organ Dysfunction
• Monitoring of sedation & analagesia
• Circulatory Failure
• Palliative care

We work collaboratively with pediatric specialists and surgical specialists, as well as those in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, to bring a multidisciplinary approach to critical care.

We assist physicians at other hospitals in the evaluation of children with complex and potentially critical illness.

We offer a highly-skilled critical care transport team 24 hours per day to bring children from other hospitals and locations to the Children's Hospital in a safe and expeditious manner.
Meet our Critical Care Pediatricians

Our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is located at the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital (Map and Directions).
More about our Clinical Care

Research interests include early liver and cardiovascular development; organ repair and regeneration; the role of the immune system and inflammation in critical illness; the study of molecular mechanisms in programmed cell death; identifying diagnostic markers for bacterial illness; new modalities for sedation monitoring; and the role of hyperglycemia in critically ill children. Additionally, we have an active performance management program to improve the quality of care delivered to our critically ill patients.
More about our Research

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is over 25 years old. Read more.