Critical Care Services

Provides care for people who have a critical illness or injury.

Provides life support to criticallly ill adult patients with serious life threatening conditions from a variety of causes which may include:

• heart attack
• kidney, liver or heart failure
• major surgery
• severe trauma
• serious infections (bacterial or viral)

Specialized equipment is used to monitor patients and provie life support. This may include:

• helping the patient breathe (ventilator)
• continuous monitoring of the heart, lungs, and other vital organs
• cleaning a person's blood with dialysis