why is pulm + cc combined?

[Isoprop]

why is pulm and critical care often combined? it seems hard or undesirable to find "pure" pulm or cc fellowships. so what is it about pulm and cc that often go hand in hand?

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[Monica Lewinsky]

I think its all the blood-gas issues. Keeping the patient's lungs working and keeping the patient's tissues oxygenated is a main concern of most cc patients.

Its strange, but a sleep medicine fellowship is under pulm/cc. All that to mostly see fat people who, surprise surprise, have sleep apnea.

 

[PBandJ]

A lot of people who need critical care have some sort of respiratory failure, so in that regard it makes sense to me.

 

[doc20]

there are lot more only cc fellowships and I think you can work out with the program for getting only cc which can be done in 2 years instead of the 3