Critical Care.
I had a question (sort of a multi-part question) in regards to critical care that I wasn’t really able to find a clear cut answer on. I’m aware there are various specialties of medicine, i.e General Surgery, IM, Anesthesiology, and I’m sure a few others, that are able to obtain fellowships in critical care. My question is would all three of the above specialties with a Critical Care fellowship do the same thing in terms of a patients care, or would each one play a more specific role tailored to there base specialty? Also would any of the aforementioned doctors be the patients primary in the hospital, or would that be another physician who sort of overlooks all the various doctors interacting with the patient. Lastly, after you complete a fellowship in critical care, would you always assume that role in a hospital setting, for example, would an Anesthesiologist have a job that allowed him both time in the OR and time in an ICU, or NICU ward? Critical Care is an aspect of the hospital (like many parts of a hospital for that matter) that i know little about, so any information or a point in the right direction for more info on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
I had a question (sort of a multi-part question) in regards to critical care that I wasn’t really able to find a clear cut answer on. I’m aware there are various specialties of medicine, i.e General Surgery, IM, Anesthesiology, and I’m sure a few others, that are able to obtain fellowships in critical care. My question is would all three of the above specialties with a Critical Care fellowship do the same thing in terms of a patients care, or would each one play a more specific role tailored to there base specialty? Also would any of the aforementioned doctors be the patients primary in the hospital, or would that be another physician who sort of overlooks all the various doctors interacting with the patient. Lastly, after you complete a fellowship in critical care, would you always assume that role in a hospital setting, for example, would an Anesthesiologist have a job that allowed him both time in the OR and time in an ICU, or NICU ward? Critical Care is an aspect of the hospital (like many parts of a hospital for that matter) that i know little about, so any information or a point in the right direction for more info on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!