Pediatric Intensive Care/Critical Care

If your child has a life-threatening acute illness or organ failure, our pediatric intensive care team goes into action. Working in our state-of-the-art Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), our team treats and monitors critically ill children (newborn to 18 years) for a range of problems, everything from burns to trauma injuries, cardiovascular surgery to neurosurgery.

Our Critical Care Team specializes in stabilizing critically ill children after surgery or serious injury and illness so they can get back to the important work of healing. Once they're condition is stable, our patients return to the care of their primary care team.

Specialties: acute respiratory failure, multi-system organ failure, multi-system trauma, neurological trauma and failure, poisoning, post-operative management, sepsis syndrome

Programs/Centers/Facilities:
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

State-of-the-Art Facilities
Children require special care. That's why we've equipped our PICU with state-of-the-art technology made just for the care of critically ill children who have a life-threatening acute illness, organ failure, or traumatic injury that requires artificial life support. Our PICU is fully equipped for full life-support and monitoring.

Sedation Service
Our team also provides a sedation service just for kids who need special care during a painful or stressful procedure. If your child is scheduled for an appointment with our Sedation Clinic, we've made a Parent's Guide to Surgery that has all the information you'll need before and after your child's procedure.

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To make an appointment or find a physician, please call UK HealthCare at 859-257-1000 or toll free 1-800-333-8874.
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