Directory of Pediatric Services

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine provides services to patients with medical and surgical conditions such as respiratory failure, shock, seizures, traumatic injuries,

Critical Care Medicine

meningitis and other life threatening diseases. The

Pediatric Critical Care Division provides this care for children in the pediatric intensive care

unit at Children’s of Alabama.

Special support modalities include: CVVH, ECMO and high-frequency ventilation. Special research interests include: lung injury, traumatic brain injury, sedation, shock, simulation and patient safety. The division offers a sedation service for children undergoing painful procedures. It also provides medical direction for the Pediatric Critical Care Transport team who transport critically ill children via ground and air.

Physicians: Nancy Tofil, M.D., MEd Professor Director, Critical Care Division Medical Co-Director, Pediatric Simulation Center Senior Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Program Ann Dial McMillan Chair In Pediatric Critical Care

Vidit Bhargava, M.D. Assistant Professor

Director, PICU Ultrasound Program PICU Director, Liver Transplantation

Mark A. Buckmaster, M.D. Associate Professor Director, Simon Sedation Service

Luke Burton, M.D. Assistant Professor Medical Director, Critical Care Transport Associate Director, PICU Ultrasound Program

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