Hartford Hospital is
an 850-bed tertiary care facility with distinctive programs in trauma,
cardiovascular surgery, surgical oncology, and transplantation
(including heart and liver). The patient base for the program is
extensive with over 40,000 surgical procedures performed each year.
There are 2,100 trauma admissions and over 1,400 transports by our LIFE STAR
critical care helicopter transport system per year. Approximately 1,500
patients are admitted to the surgical critical care units each year.
Surgical critical care is provided in three intensive care areas each with its own step down unit: General Surgery and Trauma, Cardiac/Thoracic and Neurosurgery. The patient population in the critical care area represents a broad range of disease entities and clinical problems. The trainee will gain a thorough experience in ventilator management, invasive hemodynamic monitoring systems, esophageal doppler manometry, ultrasound guided central line placement, nutritional support, renal replacement therapy, and critical care pharmacology. Clinical care in the ICU is under the direct supervision of the Attending Intensivists with appropriate input from the Attending Surgeon and medical sub-specialists.
Hartford Hospital has a fully functional simulation center, the
Center for Education, Simulation & Innovation (CESI) consisting of exact models of the trauma bay, Surgical ICU, and operative suite where additional simulated training will take place as part of the Surgery Critical Care curriculum. Also the state’s only multi-patient
hyperbaric oxygen chamber resides here.