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Critical Care Medicine

The experience of being hospitalized in an intensive care unit can be extremely challenging for patients, families, and loved ones. Faculty in the Division of Critical Care Medicine are experts in treating critical illness and managing an array of multidisciplinary resources to provide patient- and family-centric care. We lead teams comprised of nurses, clinical pharmacists, respiratory therapists, extracorporeal life support clinical specialists, dieticians, rehabilitation specialists, and palliative care specialists to serve patients from a broad referral base across the entire WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho); and we work with our colleagues from pulmonary and critical care medicine, surgery, emergency medicine and neurology to provide critical care services in five intensive care units across three hospitals: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Harborview Medical Center, and VA Puget Sound Health Care System.

UW Medical Center – Montlake intensive care units

A patient lies in a hospital bed with a team of masked doctors standing nearby. One is typing on a large monitor in the foreground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • The Surgical ICU Service cares for a variety of patients, including post-operative liver transplant, long-term lung-transplant, and more “routine” medically ill patients. 
  • The Cardiothoracic ICU Service serves all cardiac and thoracic Surgical patients at UW Medical Center – Montlake, including those needing mechanical circulatory support, heart and lung transplantation and aortic reconstruction. 

Harborview intensive care units

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As the only level-one trauma center in the  WWAMI region, Harborview’s ICU services care for the sickest patients in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. 

  • The Neurocritical Care Service is part of a comprehensive regional stroke center where our faculty care for a variety of patients with ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury, as well as post-operative neurosurgical patients and patients with a variety of other central nervous system disorders. 
  • The Trauma/Surgical ICU Service manages a large volume of trauma patients from throughout the WWAMI region as well as general, vascular, and thoracic surgical patients in a “closed” ICU model. 

VA Puget Sound intensive care unit

  • The Surgical ICU Service cares for a variety of post-operative patients including post-cardiac surgery patients. 

Faculty from the Critical Care Medicine Division lead the UW Medical Center – Montlake SICU and CTICU, the Harborview NCCS and the VA Puget Sound SICU. 

Education

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We support a dynamic Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and supply faculty for the UW Medical Center – Northwest Neurocritical Care Fellowship. Learn more about our fellowship here.

Research

Our faculty are actively engaged in research and quality improvement. Explore individual faculty bios in our directory (link to directory) to learn more about our research and initiatives.

Contact Us

Feon Jawort

email: myjawort@uw.edu

Division Manager, Pain Medicine and Critical Care

Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine