Acute illness
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OVERVIEW
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Residents staff the MGH Emergency Room, the Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of
Partner's Health Care. Transport
and night float coverage are provided by residents in the last half
of their residency. |
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The MGH Emergency Services occupy new quarters on the first floor
of the Ellison Tower. Our pediatric care area serves over 8,000 patients
under the age of 19 each year. If necessary, patients are managed
in the MGH Trauma Room with the help of medical and surgical
subspecialists.
The MGH Pediatric Emergency services is certified for Level 1 Trauma
and its ready access to radiologic imaging services is unique in the
Boston pediatric community. |
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Our NICU provides care for infants born to
high risk deliveries in the MGH obstetric service, babies transported
from nurseries in affiliated hospitals, and for additional infants
transported from hospitals throughout New England. The range of
diagnoses cared for in our nursery include standard neonatal respiratory
issues, very low birth weight infants, and acute neonatal surgical
problems. We are an ECMO referral center. |
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This Harvard-affiliated general hospital runs an
extensive obstetrics service making some 9,000 deliveries per year. MGH pediatric residents join their colleagues from the
Boston Children’s Hospital in the delivery room and special care nursery of
Brigham and Women’s, where they develop skills in the resuscitation
and management of high-risk newborns under the supervision of
neonatology attendings. |
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Our eight bed PICU is located adjacent to the
NICU on the third floor of the Ellison tower. It was the first in
Boston, and serves 800 patients per year. We care for a range of illness
requiring intense cardiovascular, respiratory and neurologic support.
Diagnoses range from simple respiratory failure to liver
transplantation. |
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