Pediatric Critical Care Medicine provides teaching, research and patient care in a 20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The Division supports a large and active trauma service and is integrated with the largest neonatal/pediatric transport service in the United States. Surgical patients account for nearly half of all admissions. Patients are referred from throughout the Pacific Rim and Western United States. Its educational mission includes training pediatric and anesthesiology residents and it has a highly selective fully accredited Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program. The program currently has 9 Fellows in training.

The Faculty consists of six board certified pediatric Intensivists some of whom are also boarded in Anesthesiology and Pulmonary medicine. Among the group, they have in excess of 90 years of experience and nearly 200 publications. Dr. Christopher Newth serves as the Director of Research as well as the Fellowship Director. Research interests include pulmonary physiology, cardiac disease and pharmacology and medical informatics.

Division of Cardiothoracic Critical Care

The 15-bed Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) is the centerpiece of the Heart Institute, founded in 1993, at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The CTICU is the largest unit of its kind in the Western U.S., and blends the services of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine. Each of these services provides state-of-the-art care and training with fully accredited fellowship training programs. Thus, the CTICU is a multidisciplinary care unit that integrates the disciplines of Nursing, Respiratory Care, Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care in the management of the critically ill child. The CTICU averages 700 admissions per year; most of the children are admitted to the CTICU to receive perioperative care, and children with the most complex diseases of the heart and lung are treated. Fellows receive training in the preoperative and postoperative management of infants and children with congenital heart disease including exposure to complex single-ventricle physiology, heart and lung (cadaveric and living-related donors) transplantation, mechanical assist devices, and cardiac anesthesia.