University Hospital is the only Level 1 trauma center in Northern New Jersey . We are located in an inner city environment. Approximately 3000 trauma patients are admitted each year, many critically ill and many with brain, spinal cord and orthopedic injuries. Seven hundred patients per year are Northstar helicopter transports.

The 14 bed surgical intensive care unit is staffed by board certified intensivists from the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesiology, surgery and anesthesiology residents and critical care fellows. A wide variety of patients are admitted including trauma, critically ill surgery, liver transplants and multisystem organ failure. Critical care physicians work closely with the trauma response team and operating room physicians to insure collaborative patient care.

Medical Intensive Care Unit

The medical intensive care unit is staffed by a multidisciplinary critical care faculty, anesthesiology, medicine and surgery residents, as well as critical care fellows. The patient population is unusual in its diversity of disease and degree of illness. The group of disorders seen in the medical intensive care unit includes cardiac and pulmonary failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, neurologic disorders, arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, overdose and intoxication, and sepsis in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the care requires a high level of expertise in the use of sophisticated monitoring systems and interventions to stabilize and treat the patients.

Our critical care faculty includes Dr. Douglas Jackson and Dr. Andrei Botea.