Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
The therapist working in the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) provides a high degree of clinical and technical support to the critically ill patient. The therapist works collaboratively with all medical staff to enhance the care provided to the patient. The therapist's responsibilities in the MICU include mechanical ventilation management; bronchoscopy assistance; hemodynamic monitoring; pulmonary artery and arterial line placement assistance; diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy assistance; nontraditional aerosol therapy; nitric oxide administration; indirect calorimetry; and diagnostic blood sampling, to name a few. This unit is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The CCTRCS provides postoperative management of critically ill postsurgical patients and patients receiving cancer immunotherapies via National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch protocols.
Heart Station
The therapist working in this area provides all stat and routine bedside, outpatient, Holter, and event electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring services to Clinical Center patients. We are fortunate to have two EKG technicians on staff who assist in performing well over 14,000 EKG procedures each year.
Metabolic Cart Consult Service
The CCTRCS provides technical / clinical support to all institutes in support of various protocols and proper assessment of patients' nutritional requirements.
Pentamidine Laboratory
The CCTRCS provides this service for all patients with immunosuppression requiring aerosolized pentamidine treatments. This service is provided for both inpatients and outpatients who require this type of antipneumocystis prophylaxis.
Stat Laboratory
The CCTRCS manages and maintains a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-approved blood gas laboratory that is accredited through the College of American Pathologists (CAP). In addition to blood gas testing, the laboratory is also approved to perform other whole-blood diagnostic tests such as tests of electrolytes, glucose, and activated clotting times for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
