Inside Our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Nationwide Children’s Hospital spans two floors and provides care for more than 3,000 critically ill or injured children each year, making it one of the largest in the country. Our highly-diverse patient population includes children with acutely life-threatening conditions that include sepsis, respiratory failure, brain injury, trauma, cancer, and solid organ transplantation. Despite our patients’ high severity of illness, we produce outcomes that are consistently among the very best in the country. The units are staffed by three teams of attendings, fellows, residents, and advanced practice nurses. Patients with specific needs, such as surgical care and bone marrow transplantation, benefit from co-management and co-rounding with specialty services. Rounds are family centered and enriched by the collaboration of the families, medical and surgical teams, bedside nurses, respiratory therapists, and clinical pharmacists. Our rooms are designed with the latest technological innovations including mobile monitoring, operating room lighting ideal for procedures, and wireless continuous EEG monitoring. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is also a leader in pediatric critical care research. We conduct dozens of single- and multi-center studies each year to understand how and why children become critically ill, and how to make them better. Between the PICU’s built-in research laboratory and resources of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute, we have the infrastructure to study the entire spectrum of pediatric critical illness. As an active member of multiple research networks, including the NIH’s only funded research network focusing critically ill children, we help lead the field toward even better outcomes for our sickest patients.