Critical Care Medicine
Our specially trained critical care team is here for people when they need us most. We provide compassionate and highly skilled life support and advanced monitoring around the clock for people with life-threatening conditions or people who are recovering from them.
Expert & Compassionate Care
Critical care physicians — also known as intensivists — lead a team of medical experts in providing compassionate, holistic care for the best possible outcomes when people are seriously ill and in Wellstar’s Intensive Care Units (ICU). We take a comprehensive approach to provide a full spectrum of services, from surgery after-care; life-supporting medications and procedures; and advanced care for patients experiencing organ failure, sepsis, respiratory failure, cardiac issues and central nervous system crises.
Our world-class intensivists lead a multidisciplinary team of specially trained physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, dieticians, and nurses to ensure compassionate and high-quality care. Wellstar intensivists also work closely with specialists in fields including nephrology, gastroenterology, neurology, surgery, and cardiology amongst others to help patients have the best possible outcomes.
Our world-class intensivists lead a multidisciplinary team of specially trained physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, dieticians, and nurses to ensure compassionate and high-quality care. Wellstar intensivists also work closely with specialists in fields including nephrology, gastroenterology, neurology, surgery, and cardiology amongst others to help patients have the best possible outcomes.
Conditions We Treat
Our highly skilled intensivists can initiate and support critically ill patients with a variety of life-saving treatments.
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure
- Acute respiratory failure and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- COVID-19 and other serious infections
- Heart failure and cardiogenic shock
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Toxic ingestions
- Intracranial bleeding
- Metabolic disorders
- Multiple organ failure
- Sepsis
- Shock
- Pulmonary embolism
- Complications from massive bleeding
- Cancer-related critical illness
- Post-operative critical illness
Treatments We Offer
To provide the best care for our patients, Wellstar intensivists use a variety of advanced treatment options.
- Non-invasive and invasive ventilation
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R)
- Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)
- Other advanced cardiac mechanical support including Impella ventricular support system/left ventricular assist device (LVAD), intra-aortic balloon pump
- Comprehensive post-cardiac arrest care
- Complicated burn critical care