Acute Care Medicine

Acute Care Medicine provides a variety of services to patients, families/significant others and students. Our patient population ranges from adult sized adolescents to geriatric. Types of patients served: Internal medicine patients and associated sub-specialties including Renal, Gastrointestinal, Pulmonary, Hepatology, Infectious Disease, Endocrine and Gerontology.

The medical procedures performed on the unit include:

• paracentesis,
• thoracentesis,
• central line insertion,
• chest tube insertion and
• bone marrow biopsy.

In addition to providing routine care based on established patient care standards, nurses on this unit assess and monitor patients before and after diagnostic testing, PEG/J placement, biopsies and angiography/catheter-ization. They also are responsible for performing CAPD and for caring for patients in negative pressure isolation.

Common diagnoses on the unit include, but are not limited to,

• congestive heart failure,
• hypertension,
• pancreatitis,
• COPD
• asthma,
• bronchitis,
• UTI
• acute and end-stage renal failure,
• liver failure,
• complications of HIV,
• Diabetes,
• cellulitis,
• connective tissue disorders and
• Tuberculosis.

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