Critical Care Anesthesiology

The intensive care units at Emory University Hospital present residents with the opportunity to learn under the direction of Critical Care-trained anesthesiology faculty as well as faculty members from other specialties including surgery, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. Anesthesiology residents rotate through Grady MICU, 5T South ICU (SICU), and 5E ICU (Cardiothoracic ICU). Each resident will complete 4 to 5 ICU rotations during the course of the residency. Residents will take care of large volume of transplants (i.e. heart, lung, liver, kidney) and manage patients on extracorporeal life support (i.e. ECMO, VAD, MARS). Residents will have ample opportunities to learn and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with special attention paid to POCUS. The breadth of complex surgical cases combined with our diverse patient population and high acuity makes our critical care experience one of the most challenging yet rewarding parts of our residency. As the closest marriage between surgery and medicine, surgical critical care is crucial to our profession as peri-operative physicians.