Paediatric Intensive Care

Paediatric Intensive Care (PIC) provides specialist and complex critical care to the most critically ill and injured children. As well as dealing with children with multi-system failure and following major trauma the PIC service also provides post-operative critical care for children who have undergone complex surgery.

PIC requires a large number of specialist staff including:

• Paediatric Consultants in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Paediatric Medicine
• Specialist nursing staff
• Paediatric Surgeons
• Paediatric ENT Surgeon
• Hospital Dietician
• Paediatric

In addition input may be needed from other specialties for example: Neuro, Cardiothoracic, Orthoapedic, Cardiologists, Haematologists, Microbiologists.

The specialist service is provided on a regional basis in the West Midlands by:

• Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals North Staffordshire NHS Trust
• University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust for some Coventry and Warwickshire patients