The University Hospitals’ Division of Resuscitation and Critical Care exists to improve the practice and teaching of resuscitation within Northeast Ohio. Its members work in both the emergency department as well as intensive care units at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Members of the division are heavily involved in the UH’s Resuscitation Committee and Shock Team, which facilitates and manages patients in needs of mechanical circulatory support, such as veno-arterial and veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

 
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Each member of the Division is committed to enhancing the education of providers across disciplines in the acute resuscitation and longitudinal critical care of the region’s sickest patients. Educational initiatives incorporate all level of trainees from the medical students to practicing physicians.

  • The DRaCC oversees the Resuscitation Elective for Case Western Reserve University Medical School, a month long deep-dive into the pathogenesis and management of shock, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest. The elective offers opportunities for both senior Emergency Medicine residents and medical students to refine their skills as expert resuscitationists.

  • The Division co-manages the Anesthesia-Critical Care Fellowship program, which offers comprehensive critical care training for Emergency Medicine graduates leading to a subspecialization board certification.

  • The EM Peer Coaching Program is housed within the DRaCC to enhance the skills of all faculty on high acuity, low opportunity procedures and clinical situations. Recent sessions have included awake fiberoptic intubation and preparation for LVAD emergencies. Faculty in the DRaCC host monthly journal clubs to keep residents and attending physicians up to date on cutting edge critical care.

The division lectures broadly across multiple levels, frequently contributing educational content to UH Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, and Internal Medicine residencies as well as multiple fellowship programs. The division’s educational expertise has been recognized nationally and internationally at meetings such as AMEE, ACEP, AAEM, and SAEM.

Faculty research interests include the effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support (i.e. ECPR), management of cardiac arrest, resuscitation education, and peer coaching.

Aside from bedside clinical responsibilities, the Division of Resuscitation and Critical Care is engaged in expanding critical care service lines to provide high quality hyperacute resuscitation to all patients across the UH system. We welcome inquiries regarding opportunities to get further involved with our division at any level.