Critical care surgery is surgery on patients in the emergency unit or critical care unit of a hospital. A critical care or trauma surgeon is a physician who performs emergency surgery on patients who are critically ill. The critical care surgeon may also communicate with the patient’s primary physician and other specialists, and the critical care staff to coordinate treatment and care. This surgeon has a comprehensive surgery background, and is knowledgeable in a wide variety of surgical procedures and life-threatening injuries.

Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 2,700 practicing critical care surgeons. Broken out by state, critical care surgery doctor density in Alabama is 31, in Alaska is 5, in Arizona is 73, in Arkansas is 14, in California is 355, in Colorado is 57, in Connecticut is 68, in Delaware is 17, in District of Columbia is 35, in Florida is 199, in Georgia is 68, in Hawaii is 14, in Idaho is 15, in Illinois is 126, in Indiana is 41, in Iowa is 31, in Kansas is 28, in Kentucky is 55, in Louisiana is 41, in Maine is 43, in Maryland is 100, in Massachusetts is 110, in Michigan is 136, in Minnesota is 76, in Mississippi is 19, in Missouri is 114, in Montana is 1, in Nebraska is 13, in Nevada is 38, in New Hampshire is 10, in New Jersey is 97, in New Mexico is 19, in New York is 239, in North Carolina is 100, in North Dakota is 5, in Ohio is 136, in Oklahoma is 32, in Oregon is 54, in Pennsylvania is 239, in Rhode Island is 15, in South Carolina is 34, in South Dakota is 5, in Tennessee is 89, in Texas is 234, in Utah is 20, in Vermont is 12, in Virginia is 89, in Washington is 64, in West Virginia is 34, in Wisconsin is 46, and in Wyoming is 1.