Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) – Surgery Critical Care.

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Students work with surgeons who care for patients with the most serious surgical disease processes in the intensive care setting. The experience may include hospital and emergency department consultations and operative cases. Students engage with patients to collect data, attend operative interventions when required, perform a physical examination, and work with their attending physician to reason through differential diagnoses and generate a plan for management of patients requiring intensive care due to need for oxygenation, ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, arterial monitoring, multiple intravenous infusions, intravascular infusions requiring titration, continuous renal replacement therapy, multiple surgeries, and other highly-skilled interventions. Prerequisite: CLIN 7401 .