Pediatric Intensive Care Clerkship

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VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a busy 36-bed academic unit that teaches students to recognize and care for critically ill children. The patients are comprised of medical, surgical, and trauma patients both from within LPCH or are referred from other hospitals throughout Northern California. The medical admissions cover a broad range of disease processes ranging from respiratory failure, to shock, to multi-system organ dysfunction. Surgical patients represent diverse pathologies and vary from solid organ transplants to various types of neurosurgical procedures to multiple other general and sub-specialty procedures. Students will learn the pathophysiology of critical illness in children, understand the many monitoring devices used in the ICU, and become familiar with the various treatment modalities available for organ failure ranging from mechanical ventilation to ECMO. The basic differences in both pathophysiology and management of critically ill children as compared to adults should also become apparent. Students are expected to function at the level of a Sub-Intern on this rotation and fulfill manager-level learning objectives. This clerkship is open to visiting students in Autumn (P4-P6) and Spring (P10-P12) Quarters only. For visiting students, please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Peds 300A, Anes 306A or Anes 306P. Visiting students should complete a pediatric core clerkship. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. Note: enrollment is coordinated with Anes 306P and capped at no more than 2 students in the PICU per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Matthew Luchette, M.D., [email protected]. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Bernadette F. Carvalho,…