Critical Care Anesthesiology Rotations

The intensive care units at Emory University Hospital (EUH) present residents with the opportunity to learn under the direction of anesthesiology faculty trained in critical care medicine as well as faculty members from other specialties, including surgery, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. Anesthesiology residents rotate through the 5T South ICU (SICU) and 5E ICU (Cardiovascular ICU) in addition to the Grady MICU. Each resident will complete 4 to 5 ICU rotations during the course of the residency. Residents will take care of a large number of patients after transplantation (e.g., heart, lung, liver, kidney) and manage patients on extracorporeal life support (e.g., ECMO, VAD, MARS). Residents will have ample opportunities to learn and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with special attention paid to POCUS. The breadth of complex surgical cases combined with our diverse patient population and high acuity makes our critical care experience one of the most challenging yet rewarding parts of our residency. As the closest marriage between surgery and medicine, surgical critical care is crucial to our profession as peri-operative physicians. Additional information about the Emory University Department of Anesthesiology's Division of Critical Care Medicine is available online.