Paediatric critical care unit
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Nottingham Children's Hospital within Nottingham University Hospitals provides a regional service for the north of the East Midlands. The unit integrates paediatric intensive care (ICU) and paediatric high dependency (HDU).
A large proportion of our admissions to critical care are from the Emergency Department but we also admit patients from wards at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, from theatres and from other hospitals both within and also outside the region.
We specialise in major trauma, neurosurgical care, renal patients, spinal surgery, and oncology (cancer) care. Many of our patients are admitted as emergency, unplanned admissions, but we also admit patients after planned surgery.