Critical Care Nursing
TraumaWe are designated as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center by the Los Angeles County EMS Agency, treating more than 1,500 pediatric trauma patients per year. Emergency DepartmentOur Emergency Department manages more than 25-percent of all pediatric emergency cases in Los Angeles County, treating more than 58,000 children per year. Child Abuse and NeglectThe Audrey Hepburn CARES team provides comprehensive medical and mental health services to children in Los Angeles who are suspected victims of child maltreatment, including sexual and physical abuse, neglect and HIV infection. Intensive CarePediatric Intensive Care Unit Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Together, these units provide 35 pediatric critical care beds, more than at any other hospital in the western United States. Neonatal and Infant Critical CareThe 40-bed Center for Newborn and Infant Critical Care (CNICC) provides innovative therapies for critically ill newborns and extremely low birthweight infants requiring Level III neonatal care, transferred from other hospitals throughout Southern California and around the world. In addition to providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (see below), the tertiary care provided in the CNICC includes Nitric Oxide and High Frequency Ventilation. ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)Our hospital has one of the most active and productive Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) centers in the United States, providing long-term cardiac and/or pulmonary bypass support for infants and children who are in life-threatening cardiac or cardio-respiratory failure in the Pediatric ICU, the Cardiothoracic ICU and Center for Newborn and Infant Critical Care. |
Nurses who choose to specialize in Critical Care can pursue positions in several areas of our hospital.