Delaware (DE) Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Doctors and Physicians
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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Information
Description
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.
Location Density Information
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. Delaware has
16 practicing
pediatric critical care medicine doctors. Broken out by city, pediatric critical care medicine doctor density
in Newark is 1
and in Wilmington is 15.
Delaware Information
Delaware, located on the Atlantic Ocean, was the first state to ratify the constitution of the United States in 1787. Delaware’s population is 843,524, and its capital city is Dover.
In Wilmington, visit the Grand Opera House or the Old Town Hall Museum built in 1798, or the Abbott’s Mill Nature Center in Milford. Drive to the Atlantic shore, or go bird-watching, fishing, hiking, biking, or canoeing in Delaware’s extensive park and trail systems. Dover is home to parks, historic museums, clubs, theater and dance, and offers bargain-hunting at tax-free outlet stores and antiques shops.
According to 2005 Census estimates, Delaware has a population of 843,524.
Of this population, 189,940 are under the age of 18
and 111,761 are at or above the age of 65.
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