Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit – Neuro Critical Care.

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Students work with neurosurgeons who care for patients with the most serious neurosurgical 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 physical examinations, 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, and other highly-skilled interventions. Prerequisite: CLIN 7401 .