Surgical Critical Care
Main Number: 617.414.4861
The SICU team cares for patients with multisystem trauma, neurotrauma, or multisystem organ failure, as well as those who require perioperative hemodynamic monitoring or critical care for a wide range of general, vascular, thoracic, urologic, neurologic, and orthopedic diseases. The newly renovated Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Boston Medical Center is a 28-bed, state-of-the-art unit that admits more than 1,500 patients annually.
Surgical Critical Care faculty, all boarded in surgical critical care and with additional qualifications in traumatology and acute care surgery, provide 24/7 services. Surgeons in the group are full-time faculty members of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Department of Surgery members work closely with other BMC services to ensure holistic and complete care for each patient and family. These include:
- Case Management
- Pastoral Care
- Patient Advocacy
- Physical and Occupational Therapy
- Rehabilitative Medicine
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Social Work
Our Team
Tracey Dechert, MD
Chief, Surgical Critical Care
Associate Professor of Surgery
Tejal Brahmbhatt, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Peter A. Burke, MD
Professor of Surgery
Aaron Richman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Sabrina E. Sanchez, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Kathryn Twomey, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Fellowship Program
For information about our Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, please click here.