Critical Care

Critical care is medical attention for patients with illnesses and injuries that pose a life-threatening threat. Usually, an intensive care unit hosts it (ICU). You receive 24-hour care from a group of properly educated healthcare professionals. Using equipment to continuously check your vital signs is part of this.

The majority of critical care medicine specialists practise in hospital settings, frequently in intensive care units. Since pulmonologists typically supervise the care of patients in intensive care units, critical care medicine training in internal medicine is most usually combined with a pulmonary medicine fellowship. 

However, in order to make their work with seriously ill patients easier, other internal medicine doctors, such cardiologists and general internists who practise hospital medicine, might look into critical care medicine training.