Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides the highest level of care to critically ill or injured children of all ages staffed by pediatric Intensivists, pediatric trainee and experienced pediatric nurses for patients 24 hours per day in 6-bed unit with an estimated 600 admissions per year.

Clinical Services

Medical care

• Severe sepsis and septic shock
• Acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
• Encephalitis and meningitis
• Status Asthmaticus
• Status Epilepticus
• Oncology emergencies
• Acute single and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS)
• Sickle cell crisis
• Acute heart disease
• Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
• Increased intracranial pressure
• Inhalation injury
• Poisoning and ingestion

Surgical care

• Pediatric Surgery
• Pediatric Neurosurgery service
• Pediatric Orthopedic service
• Pediatric Otolaryngology, ear, nose and throat service
• Plastic surgery and Craniofacial disorders
• Vascular surgery service
• Level I Trauma service

Special services and featured programs include

• Family-oriented psychosocial support
• Family visitation
• Inpatient consultation
• Palliative Care Consultation Service
• Pediatric Behavioral service
• State-of-the-art invasive hemodynamic monitoring
• Conventional/high frequency ventilation
• Nitric oxide
• Heliox
• Flolan therapy for pulmonary hypertension
• Procedural sedation (inpatient and outpatient) service
• Telephone consultation (always available)

Our division is both family-centered and multidisciplinary in approach. Parents and providers from many clinical services are members of a team that provide efficient, cost effective care, resulting in better clinical outcomes overall and greater success in treating patients.

Education

The Division of Pediatric Critical Care is committed to training residents in the field of pediatrics. Our residency training program prepares physicians for successful careers in academic and clinical pediatric field. Also medical students from University of Kansas School of Medicine rotate in our pediatric ICU on a monthly basis.

Faculty

• Nidal El-wiher M.D. Assistant professor of pediatrics
• Kenneth Goertz M.D. Associate professor of pediatrics
• Sergei Shushanov M.D. Assistant professor of pediatrics
  

Contact:

Main Office

Phone: 913-588-6224
Fax: 913-588-6328

Mailing address

Mail Stop 4004
3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160

Physical address

2036 Center for Child Health and Development
3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160

To contact the PICU

University of Kansas Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Floor 4, unit 44
Kansas City, KS 66160

Phone: 913-588-6363
FAX: 913-588-0876

Ask to speak to the intensivist or the charge nurse