Critical Care

At Mayo Clinic the most seriously ill or injured people are cared for by the critical care intensivists, with locations at its campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. These experts provide specialized care for people who have experienced major surgery or trauma, as well as those with other critical medical needs.

Mayo Clinic's critical care doctors treat people who need advanced monitoring and care. The full spectrum of critical care services is provided by doctors and other medical professionals specially trained in critical care (intensivists) who are present in Mayo Clinic hospitals 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The Critical Care and Multidisciplinary Program emphasizes a team-based approach to care. Critical care doctors lead a team of experienced professionals, which includes resident physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, vascular access specialists, physical and occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, and nurses. Mayo Clinic critical care doctors also work closely with doctors from many specialties, including anesthesiology, pulmonary medicine, cardiovascular medicine, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, nephrology, pediatrics, surgery and transplant medicine. Together, the team provides high-quality and safe critical care in operating rooms, ICUs and other hospital settings.

Because the experience of being critically ill can have lasting effects, even after leaving the hospital, Mayo Clinic has developed an online support group for people who have been affected by critical illness or may be experiencing post-intensive care syndrome (PICS).

Mayo Clinic is nationally recognized for expertise in continuous care for critically ill, hospitalized people.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, are ranked among the Best Hospitals for respiratory disorders by U.S. News and World Report.

The nursing teams at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida have received the Magnet Designation, developed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The award recognizes excellence in delivering nursing services and providing an environment that supports professional nursing practice.

Arizona

Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, uses a multidisciplinary co-managed model of ICU care at Mayo Clinic Hospital. Each person's care is under the direction of a trained, board-certified or board-eligible intensivist from admission to discharge. An intensivist is a specially trained critical care healthcare professional. This lead doctor collaborates with other specialists as needed to support patients along their journey.

Critical care medicine specialists provide a full range of services, including advanced cardiovascular monitoring, aftercare of high-risk surgical patients, mechanical circulatory support and tracheostomies. They care for people experiencing multisystem organ failure, such as kidney and liver failure; sepsis; respiratory failure; central nervous system crises; and cardiac failure. They also care for patients after transplantation or other high-risk surgeries.

The Critical Care team at Mayo Clinic in Arizona works with Cardiothoracic Surgery to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) transportation for critically ill patients at other hospitals who are coming to Mayo Clinic.

Florida

Critical care medicine specialists at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, provide a full range of services, including crisis management, advanced cardiovascular monitoring, aftercare of high-risk surgical patients, mechanical circulatory support and tracheostomies. They care for people experiencing multisystem organ failure (such as kidney and liver failure), sepsis, respiratory failure, central nervous system crises and cardiac failure.

Minnesota

Critical care doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, provide ICU services, including neonatal, pediatric, cardiac, neurologic, medical, respiratory, trauma and surgical. They partner with the doctors in the Division of Trauma, Critical Care, and General Surgery, who provide emergency surgery, intensive care after injury or surgery, and elective surgery. Babies who are treated in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, may be seen regularly in the NICU Follow-up Clinic, usually beginning within three months of leaving the unit.

Critical care doctors assume a primary role in the care of people in the medical intensive care unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus and in the multidisciplinary intensive care unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus. Consultative care is provided for people in the coronary care unit who need mechanical ventilation and for other hospitalized people with respiratory failure.

In addition, Mayo Clinic Health System, hospitals and other healthcare facilities are in 39 communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. These sites bring Mayo Clinic pulmonary, critical care and sleep disorders treatment to their local communities.

Critical care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, also offers enhanced critical care. This is an electronic intensive care unit designed to improve care and shorten hospital stays. In addition to being cared for by local providers and nurses, patients benefit from telemedicine technology so that they can be monitored remotely by highly experienced intensivists, advanced care providers and critical care nurses who specialize in caring for people with complex medical and surgical problems.

Contact

Arizona

Critical Care Medicine
Mayo Clinic
5881 E. Mayo Blvd.
Phoenix, AZ 85054

Florida

Critical Care Medicine
Mayo Clinic
4500 San Pablo Road
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Minnesota

Critical Care Medicine
Mayo Clinic
200 First St. SW
Rochester, MN 55905