Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Facilities
UT Southwestern's Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program provides a rich clinical experience at the 487-bed Children's Health℠ Children's Medical Center Dallas, which provides quaternary-level care for children in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The 44-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) has approximately 2,000 admissions per year and has 24/7 coverage by in-house pediatric critical care attendings.
Fellows care for a wide range of critical illnesses in this high-volume unit, with significant exposure to:
- Advanced modes of mechanical ventilation
- Continuous renal replacement therapy
- Solid organ transplants
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Neurocritical care
- Trauma
Faculty members also provide intensive care at Children's Medical Center Plano.
The 32-bed, state-of-the-art Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) provides care for children with congenital heart disease as well as other cardiac diseases. Fellows spend a significant portion of their training in this unit, learning how to care for complex congenital heart disease.
The unit has an active heart transplantation service as well as a ventricular assist device program. Fellows interested in a career in cardiac intensive care medicine may pursue an additional year of training in the CVICU.