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Critical Care

Pediatric intensivists who are board certified/eligible in pediatric critical care medicine provide 24-hour on-site, attending-level inpatient care.  Critical Care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is an active resident teaching and research program that provides pediatric critical care transport, PICU coverage, bedside dialysis, specialized monitoring and more.

Critical Care started an accredited fellowship program in July 2004.

Our Clinics

Critical Care does not provide outpatient services, but may be reached at (614) 722-3435 for phone consultation or information, Mon. through Fri. 8 am – 4:30 pm.

Department Highlights

Critical Measures Newsletter   

Since treating of injured children is so different than adults, the American College of Surgeons has designated a special category for hospitals that specialize in caring for injured children: "Regional Pediatric Trauma Center." Children's Hospital is one of three regional pediatric trauma centers in Ohio. It is the only pediatric hospital in Ohio with trauma, rehabilitation (CARF), and burn accreditation.

To highlight the programs that make Children's a regional pediatric trauma center, Critical Measures was launched in Spring 2000. Critical Measures is a quarterly newsletter, written by professional staff of the Emergency, Trauma and Critical Care Departments at Children's Hospital. Each newsletter has a focused theme with full-page clinical articles, program updates and a listing of educational courses offered the next quarter.

For more information, or to be added to the Critical Measures mailing list, please call (614) 722-6500.        

Multi-center Interventional Trials

The Section of Critical Care Medicine continues to be an active presence in the field of multi-center clinical and translational research. Through membership in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) network, the section is an active participant in three multi-center interventional trials and numerous observational studies designed to expose the pathophysiology of pediatric critical illness. Mark W. Hall, MD, through the PALISI network, is a national co-investigator for a multi-center study of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of life-threatening influenza infection.