Intensive Care Services

Highly Specialized for Critical Care

The 16-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St. Charles provides highly specialized care for those who are in the most critical condition. We use evidence-based protocols, best practices and technology specially designed to treat virtually every critical condition except transplants, including:

Surgical: Using cutting-edge surgical techniques by board certified physicians, a team of registered nurses and other clinicians trained in critical care and advanced cardiac support provide treatment for:

• Trauma

• Cardiac (heart)

• Vascular (blood vessels)

• Ear, nose and throat

• High-risk pregnancy

• Orthopedic (muscles and skeleton)

• General and plastic surgery

Cardiothoracic: Our highly specialized, board certified cardiothoracic surgeons treat the organs inside the chest, specifically the heart and lungs of a patient, in a facility that was specifically designed for heart and lung care for:

• Open-heart surgery by the region’s only board certified cardiac surgeons

• Open-lung surgery

• Valve replacement, repair or insertion of ventricular assist devices that help restore normal heart function

• intra aortic balloon pump

Neurosurgical: A team of neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists specialize in procedures for the brain and nervous system with close monitoring for subtle neurological changes in the treatment of:

• Stroke that is ischemic (clot) or hemorrhage (bleeding)

• Aneurysm

• Traumatic brain or spine injury

• Neurological disorders (nervous system)

Pediatric: Our tiniest patients give us the chance to perform the greatest miracles with extraordinary care for infants and children. Our team of pediatric physicians and cardiologists has additional training in caring for very sick children.

General medical: For patients who are critically ill with any number of medical problems and complications, we offer the highest level of specialization in surgery, treatment and close monitoring. Our compassionate team physicians and critical care nurses treat patients whose lives are in need of the most immediate and intensive care, and need specialized medical attention and technology.

Acute Hemodialysis: Hemodialysis is the filtering of blood in a patient whose kidneys have failed or are not functioning properly. Our state-of-the-art hemodialysis machine acts like an artificial kidney that cleans and filters the patients own blood as it continuously pumps it through their body for a prescribed number of hours. A board certified nephrologist (kidney doctor) will prescribe hemodialysis for patients who have had surgery and require dialysis while staying at the hospital. ICU patients who unexpectantly need dialysis due to their critical condition will also receive this acute treatment.