Pediatric ICU
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), the largest in Nevada, is a multidisciplinary unit that provides care for infants, children and adolescents who are injured or become critically ill. Conditions that might bring your child to the PICU include severe infections, poisoning, drug overdose, trauma, extensive and complex surgery, congenital anomalies, immunological disorders and oncological emergencies.
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Nurse Station
Each floor at Sunrise Children’s Hospital is themed after well-known Las Vegas landmarks and then designed with kids interests in mind. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is called Lake Mead and features the lake and outdoor activities throughout the unit.
Pediatric ICU
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 24-bed ICU staffed by pediatric intensivists and nurses certified in ACLS, PALS and TNCC.
Patient Room
All rooms in the Pediatric ICU are private rooms with sleeping accommodations for one parent. A family lounge is also available in the PICU and includes kitchen facilities, showers, locker and nearby laundry facilities.
The PICU is the only unit in the state that provides extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO is a life-saving technique that mimics the natural function of the heart and lungs, allowing an infant or child to rest while natural healing of the affected organs takes place. It is used for newborns and children suffering respiratory and/or cardiac failure as a result of birth defects, trauma or severe infection.
The many physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other healthcare professionals who work in the PICU possess the skills and knowledge to provide timely and appropriate assessment and treatment and thereby achieve the best possible outcome from an injury or critical illness. Utilizing advanced technology, our healthcare team improves survival, speeds recovery and minimizes pain and suffering from illness and injury in a compassionate and family-centered approach. The technology used in the PICU is at the forefront of pediatric critical care in the United States.
Parents are encouraged to participate in the care of their child, as desired, while in the PICU and a parent is allowed to sleep at the child’s bedside. The PICU has a family lounge that includes kitchen facilities, showers, lockers and nearby laundry facilities.
Admissions to the PICU are coordinated and overseen by a Pediatric Intensive Care Physician who is available in the PICU 24 hours a day.