Pediatric critical care medicine is the field of medicine dealing with infants, children, and adolescents who require advanced life support and are critically ill. A pediatric critical care physician is a pediatrician who diagnoses, treats and supports patients who may be in an intensive care unit, or who may have multiple organ dysfunction.
Pediatric patients who receive intensive care treatment are usually critically ill children who are treated after major surgery, and require intensive monitoring. The critical care or intensive care pediatric physician may also communicate with the patient’s primary physician and other specialists, and the critical care staff to coordinate treatment and care.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 1,626 practicing pediatric critical care medicine doctors. Broken out by state, pediatric critical care medicine doctor density in Alabama is 16, in Alaska is 4, in Arizona is 44, in Arkansas is 14, in California is 210, in Colorado is 25, in Connecticut is 22, in Delaware is 16, in District of Columbia is 25, in Florida is 128, in Georgia is 42, in Hawaii is 11, in Idaho is 4, in Illinois is 77, in Indiana is 29, in Iowa is 11, in Kansas is 10, in Kentucky is 21, in Louisiana is 21, in Maine is 6, in Maryland is 36, in Massachusetts is 52, in Michigan is 56, in Minnesota is 44, in Mississippi is 6, in Missouri is 41, in Montana is 1, in Nebraska is 13, in Nevada is 14, in New Hampshire is 3, in New Jersey is 48, in New Mexico is 9, in New York is 138, in North Carolina is 55, in North Dakota is 6, in Ohio is 83, in Oklahoma is 11, in Oregon is 16, in Pennsylvania is 104, in Rhode Island is 9, in South Carolina is 20, in South Dakota is 6, in Tennessee is 38, in Texas is 149, in Utah is 18, in Vermont is 5, in Virginia is 39, in Washington is 36, in West Virginia is 12, and in Wisconsin is 47.
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