St. John Hospital PICU
Our physicians are board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and are also the director of Critical Care Medicine and Co-Directors of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at St. John Hospital and Medical Center. Each physician has her own special interests including acute respiratory failure, pediatric shock, management of metabolic disorders and medical management of pediatric trauma and head injury. They are committed to improving the health and safety of all children in Southeast Michigan.
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a 6-bed unit including one isolation room, operated on a 24-hour basis on the fourth floor of St. John’s Critical Care Building. Patients admitted to the PICU are monitored continuously with service provided to their individual needs. The care is family-focused and addresses the needs of families in adjusting to a life-threatening illness. Patients include infants through young adults with critical medical-surgical illnesses, with the exclusion of cardiac surgery.
Services include:
- mechanical ventilation (conventional and high-frequency)
- intracranial pressure monitoring
- external ventriculostomy care
- cardioversion
- hemodynamic and cardiorespiratory monitoring
- continuous intravenous vasoactive and sedative infusions
- peritoneal dialysis and continuous hemofiltration
- organ donor management
- bereavement program
- interhospital transport
Our Locations
22101 Moross
Fourth Floor
Detroit, MI 48236
Phone: 313.343.3474.Fax: 313.412.1227
