Critical Care

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides complete care for critically ill children at Stony Brook University Medical Center. We care for children from birth to age twenty-one, with medical or surgical problem who have been victims of trauma. We provide state-of-the-art care, including continuous renal replacement therapy, high frequency oscillatory ventilation, and inhaled nitric oxide therapy. In addition, we provide moderate or deep sedation for children undergoing painful procedures, both inpatients and outpatients. Our transport service provides a team to transport children from all of the other hospitals in Suffolk County. The Pediatric Intensive Care faculty also organizes and teaches Pediatric Advanced Life Support courses to physicians and nurses throughout the institution. We use the Stony Brook Simulation Center to teach the PALS courses and to train our residents. Our Family Advocacy Board includes family members of former (and sometimes current) PICU patients and PICU leadership. The Board’s goal is to improve the care of the children in the PICU as well as meet the needs of their parents and family members.