Mount Sinai Hospital
Critical Care Unit

Unit description
Our Critical Care Unit has 14 bed multidisciplinary beds, meaning that we admit and consult on all patients from Mount Sinai Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital who require critical care services. We function as a "closed" unit, meaning that the critical care team is primarily and solely responsible for patient care provided in the unit.

Our patient coverage includes:

medicine
general surgery
orthopedic surgery
obstetrics and gynecology (including high-risk)
cardiology (if ventilated)
otolaryngology
psychiatry
hematology/oncology (including bone marrow transplant)
vascular surgery
interventional radiology

Our areas of special expertise include:

advanced management of acute respiratory distress syndrome using high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) and nitric oxide (NO)
research in sedation and analgesia
use of technology at the bedside for improved patient care and provider education
high-fidelity simulation for learning and evaluation

For further information contact: Dr. Randy Wax, Education Director
Room 1831, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X5