About Critical Care

What is Critical Care Medicine?

Critical Care Medicine evolved out of the imperative to concentrate resources to optimize care. The ICU provides for the availability of physiological monitoring equipment, a highly skilled nursing staff, and a readily available and specially trained physician staff. As spotlighted by the Leapfrog Group, the dedicated physician care improves the outcome of our patients.

Critical Care Medicine at Dartmouth

The Section of Critical Care Medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center delivers critical care services to the population of northern New England. The section is a subdivision of the Department of Anesthesiology and is comprised of physicians board certified in critical care medicine from the specialities of anesthesiology, internal medicine, and surgery. The history of critical care medicine at Dartmouth is described here.

Humanistic considerations of the patient and the patient's family provide the framework for medical and nursing decisions made in the DHMC ICU. More information for patients and their families is available here.

The Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine is supported by a long tradition of graduate medical education in this academic medical center. Please visit the links above to learn more about this program.

More Information

Critical Care Medicine at Dartmouth is a program of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Dartmouth Medical School, which is part of Dartmouth College.

For more information on national societies of Critical Care Medicine, use the links at the left.