Critical Care

[Dryacku]

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Are there any critical care anesth on this forum.... I really enjoy critical care, granted ive only had it for a month... I understand it may not be as profitable as doing just OR... but does anyone do part time or part time anest??? or does anyone share the same interest as me....

Also I personally think Anest is the best way to go considering we have the best skills in many of the procedures... what we lack medically we make up with procedural.... Im just hoping I can learn enough in that year of fellowship if i choose to do that...

any thoughts???

 

[Trisomy13]

what we lack medically ...

who lacks what now?

 

[bubalus]

I don't think anesthesiologists are lacking medically. I find my knowledge of physiology and pharmacology is as good or better than the nonanesthesia people I'm in the ICU with right now.

If you want to do CCM, you'll have plenty of time to learn it in your fellowship. An academic center may be a good choice if you want to do some CCM and some anesthesia.

I know some people in anesthesia who do or are planning to do critical care. I plan on finishing my CCM time and not looking back, but that's just me.

Mil is probably the best one to answer this, though. Hopefully he'll post an answer.

 

[Dryacku]

just wanted to correct any confusion... when i say medically i mean internal medicine considering we dont do a im residency... on other hand i do agree our pharm and physio (prob the two of the most impt in cc) our better then most other docs...

 

[threepeas]

Are there any critical care anesth on this forum.... I really enjoy critical care, granted ive only had it for a month... I understand it may not be as profitable as doing just OR... but does anyone do part time or part time anest??? or does anyone share the same interest as me....

Also I personally think Anest is the best way to go considering we have the best skills in many of the procedures... what we lack medically we make up with procedural.... Im just hoping I can learn enough in that year of fellowship if i choose to do that...

any thoughts???

MS3 planning on the anesthesiology/CCM tract. looking forward to doing both. know some folks that split their time and seem to enjoy how each compliments the other. also if one career path closes down for some reason one can dive into the other. however there is a great demand for both, and both are going to be positively effected by the baby boomer generation; that is if the whole health care system can stay afloat.

i think it is easier to pick up the medicine part of CCM in fellowship than it is for IM folks to pick up the ventilator/procedure part of practicing CCM. some say anesthesiologist are more aggressive resuscitators and weaners of vents, while IM folks are better at picking antibiotics, but this is just a rough remedial generalization.

anyway...most gas folks dont like the CCM stuff that you and i probally enjoy. rounding on patients is a big one, writing notes is another. i think it comes down to the type of CCM experience one has in med school.

good luck and you can enjoy both.