Critical Care
Section of Critical Care Medicine
| The Section of Critical Care Medicine at Boston Medical Center was established in 1980 to provide a consultative service for the care of the critically ill. The first surgical critical care fellow began training in 1981. Staff members in the Critical Care Section are faculty members of the Division of Surgery and the Division of Anesthesiology who have special interest and training in critical care medicine. The section assists the surgical team in the comprehensive physiologic care of the critically ill patient, both preoperatively and postoperatively. |
| Suresh Agarwal, M.D., Chief of Critical Care |
 Surgical instruments in use during the late 1400s. |
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| John M. Kofi Abbensetts, M.D. Surgeon, Critical Care Physician | ||
| Peter Burke, M.D. Surgeon, Critical Care Physician Tracey Dechert, M.D. |
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| Andrew Glantz, M.D. Surgeon, Critical Care Physician |
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| Eric Mahoney, M.D. Surgeon, Critical Care Physician |
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| Kate Mandell, M.D. Surgeon, Critical Care Physician |
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| Information for Residents Didactic and clinical rounds are conducted twice daily by critical care teams and the general surgical teams. Together they plan and execute a comprehensive treatment program. The ICU team consists of general surgical residents who spend one month at Boston Medical Center’s Menino Pavilion and one month at the East Newton campus. During this two month rotation, the surgical resident is on call for twenty four hours on alternating days. A surgical critical care fellow, a pulmonary critical care fellow, and residents from anesthesia, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology participate as members of the critical care team, as well as fourth year medical students. There are two formal critical care conferences per week as well as frequent informal lectures. |
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 The start of critical care rounds |
Critical Care Fellowship The Section of Critical Care offers a fully accredited one year fellowship in critical care medicine and a two year (non-accredited) trauma/critical care fellowship. The fellows are an integral part of the resident critical care teaching program. In addition, the fellows gain advanced knowledge in the care of the critically ill, in ICU administration, and in trauma, trauma systems, and the management of a trauma center. |
| 1) Resident Policies (same as General Surgery) Link to Policies 2) Resident Goals & Objectives Critical Care Fellow Roles and Responsibilities Critical Care Goals & Objectives for Residents Critical Care Basic Science Goals and Objectives for Fellows |
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| Boston Medical Center has state-of-the-art monitoring equipment and computerized physiologic data capability to provide accurate physiologic assessment of ICU patients. Patients seen may be from the general surgical, neurosurgical, otolaryngologic, oncologic, vascular, trauma, orthopedic, or urologic services. We care for a large volume of trauma patients and patients with multisystem organ failure. | |
| After completing this two month rotation, our surgical residents have extensive experience in comprehensive physiologic assessment and management of the critically ill patient. |  |
A “wound man” illustration from Dis Is das Buch der Cirurgia by Heironymus Brunschwig. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.Medieval texts frequently used “wound men” to illustrate various injuries. |
