Clinical
Subspecialties
Pediatric Anesthesia Training
Pediatric
care at Loyola University Medical Center is provided at Ronald
McDonald Children's Hospital, a tertiary referral center on the
Loyola campus consisting of 50 Level III NICU, 14 PICU, 14 monitored,
and 24 ward beds as well as the Ronald McDonald House for parents.
The pediatric hospital is an active, growing facility with all
pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties represented. The
later includes general, urologic, plastic, orthopedic, ENT, ophthalmologic,
and cardiac surgical specialists.
Our goal
is to provide the graduating anesthesia resident with the experience,
skills and confidence to provide safe anesthesia for routine pediatric
cases commonly encountered in a community hospital. The pediatric
anesthesia faculty consists of 7-8 pediatric anesthesiologists.
All have completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship, are board-certified
in both pediatrics & anesthesia, or have equivalent past experience
anesthetizing children.
All anesthesia
residents will have a minimum core rotation of 2 months of pediatric
anesthesia, with the option to take up to 4 more months their
senior year. The rotation includes both inpatient and outpatient
cases. Outpatient procedures include a large volume of ENT, GU,
and ophthalmologic cases. Challenging inpatient procedures include
repair of complex congenital heart disease, necrotizing enterocolitis,
bronchoscopy, neonatal surgical emergencies, grafting of burns,
remote-site anesthesia (radiologic, oncologic), etc. Over 2000
pediatric cases are done annually. Required reading assignments with weekly
quizzes during the 2 month pediatric anesthesia rotation and
giving a lecture on a pediatric anesthesia topic round
out the resident's learning experience.
Additionally,
a comprehensive series of didactic lectures on pediatric anesthesia
is given by the attending pediatric anesthesia faculty during
the CA-1 to CA-3 years. On approximately a quarterly basis, a
nationally recognized pediatric anesthesiologist is brought to
Loyola to lecture at Grand Rounds. Resident participation in pediatric
clinical research projects and/or presentation of abstracts is
also available and encouraged.
