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Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine manages the University of Maryland's Hospital for Children's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), a 10-bed facility that provides state-of-the-art multidisciplinary critical care for young patients with life-threatening medical and surgical conditions.

The division also maintains an eight-bed pediatric intermediate care unit to care for children with special needs or who require close monitoring. Both units are staffed by pediatric intensivists, specialized teams of nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers and other allied health professionals. Pediatric Critical Care nurse practitioners help coordinate the care of our most complicated patients.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty provide comphrehensive care to children needing acute care.

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This page was last updated on: May 18, 2007.

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