Pediatric Critical Care

If your child is experiencing a life-threatening critical condition, such as a severe infection or serious injuries from an accident, you want the highest level of care available. Our pediatric critical care services provide state-of-the-art care for children and adolescents with life-threatening illnesses and injuries. In fact, other community hospitals throughout Kansas and Missouri often transfer their sickest children here.

Pediatric critical care is staffed by board-certified pediatric intensivists, trainees and highly skilled pediatric nurses. The six-bed unit is available 24 hours a day and serves approximately 600 patients a year. In addition, our physicians provide procedure sedation for inpatient and outpatient services.

We use a family-centered and multidisciplinary approach that not only provides efficient, cost-effective care, but also results in better clinical outcomes overall and greater success in treating patients.

Some of the services available include:

• Level I Pediatric Burn Center
• Level I Trauma service (ages 14 and up)
• Pediatric surgery
• Pediatric neurosurgery service
• Pediatric otolaryngology, ear, nose and throat service
• Plastic surgery and craniofacial disorders
• Vascular surgery service

• Conventional/high frequency ventilation
• CRRT, or continuous renal replacement therapy
• Family-oriented psychosocial support
• Family visitation
• Heliox
• Nitric oxide
• Palliative care consultation
• Pediatric behavioral service
• Procedural sedation (inpatient and outpatient) service
• State-of-the-art invasive hemodynamic monitoring
• Telephone consultation (always available)