Critical Care Medicine

Intensive care experience is provided at the Kenneth Norris Cancer Hospital where major post operative patients as well as medical patients receive care. The ICU is run by USC anesthesia intensivists. The surgical intensive care unit has a mixed population of patients following major trauma, major urologic, ENT, GYN, or oncologic surgery. There are multiple types of major surgery in elderly patients or those with multiple co-morbidities. These patients also are frequently admitted to the SICU.

Controlled hypotensive anesthetic techniques which are utilized at Norris for the more extensive cancer surgeries. Epidural narcotics and regional nerve blocks are administered and monitored for post operative pain relief.

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