The Critical Care Medicine staff is expert in the management of the most advanced support technology, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a device that supports or replaces the functions of the heart and lungs when these organs are failing.
Our highly-skilled critical care transport team is available 24-hours-a-day to bring seriously ill and injured children from other hospitals and locations to Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital in a safe and expeditious manner.
The intensive care units at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital provide around the clock care to infants, children and adolescents with life-threatening illnesses and injuries, as well as those recovering from major or high-risk surgery. Our 19-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) provides highly specialized care for critically ill children and teens. Patients are admitted to the PICU from other sites within the hospital's emergency department, operating rooms, clinics and from other hospitals by our highly skilled critical care transport team, available 24 hours a day.
Transport Team
A highly-skilled critical care transport team is available 24 hours per day, every day, to bring children from other hospitals to our hospital. Our transport service enables us to reach children who might otherwise not have access to care.
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
As the regional neonatal unit for southern Connecticut, the NBSCU is Connecticut's leader in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a heart-lung bypass procedure for infants with life-threatening lung and heart diseases.
ECMO provided newborn Leeya Fabry with a fighting chance at life. Her parents describe the experience ...