Trauma Surgical Care Unit Floor

Most often they see patients first in the emergency room at memorial health university medical center.

Trauma surgical care unit floor. Whether your floor will be purely trauma patients is a function of the volume of traumas your hospital receives. The trauma surgical intensive care unit ticu is a 16 bed unit designed for the care of the critically injured and acute surgical patient. Open 24 hours a day 365 days a year our ccswr is a warm and supportive place to wait while. If you are the only level 1 trauma facility for a 200 mile radius and you live in a high population density area then chances are high that the vast majority of your patients will be traumas.

Both the trauma pcu and the trauma surgical unit are staffed with trauma surgeons critical care associates trauma nurse practitioners trauma registered nurses respiratory therapists and trauma patient care associates. Ccswr located on the second floor adjacent to all of our intensive care units. As a level 1 trauma unit and tertiary care center the tsicu functions as an innovative multidisciplinary patient centered critical care unit where general surgery patients transplant recipients and traumatically injured patients receive exceptional care. Advanced invasive and non invasive monitoring therapeutic ventilation modalities and other advance clinical interventions and assessments are utilized in this care setting.

Surgical trauma intensive care unit sticu at wakemed we are the specialists in caring for patients who have had a traumatic injury or a complex surgical procedure. Trauma surgical intensive care 3rd floor kelemen.