Acute Illness Overview
Residents staff the MGH Emergency Room, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of Partner's Health Care.
Emergency Medicine
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.
Neonatal Intensive Care
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.
Neonatal Medicine
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.
Pediatric Intensive Care
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.
