Acute surgical critical care is an emerging area of general surgery consisting of the acutely ill patients who require immediate surgical evaluation and care.
USA surgeons with added qualifications in surgical critical care are immediately available at Erlanger Medical Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing emergent/urgent care for critically ill patients.
USA acute surgical critical care surgeons are specially trained to diagnose and treat the physiologic derangements that are seen in the critically ill surgical patient. These include, but are not limited to, respiratory failure, sepsis, malnutrition, and renal failure.
