Critical Care Medicine

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine physicians provide 24-hour, in-house coverage in a multi-disciplinary, 22-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (CMHH), a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center located in the Texas Medical Center. Thanks to this team’s expertise, CMHH is one of only six organizations in the world that has received the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s Award for Excellence in Life Support every year since 2006 and has earned the three-star rating, the highest possible distinction, from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Alongside a group of highly qualified and dedicated faculty, our fellows treat pediatric patients from all subspecialties and provide critical care in one of the busiest Level 1 Trauma Centers in the United States. Medical and surgical subspecialists from all disciplines are immediately available in the PICU. Areas of subspecialty expertise include, but are not limited to, cardiovascular surgery, congenital heart disease, hematology, neurosurgery, oncology, sepsis, solid organ transplantation, and trauma. Advanced treatment modalities are also available in the PICU, such as high-frequency oscillatory ventilation; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; inhaled nitric oxide gas therapy; non-invasive ventilation; and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for neonatal and pediatric respiratory and cardiac failure.

This Division has a diverse group of critical care intensivists with many unique perspectives and areas of academic interest. Our team is considered a community educational and clinical care resource, participating in local educational activities, having academic representation at the national level, and directing the transport of critically ill children.