Surgical Emergency Program

The Surgical Critical Care Program at Yale – New Haven Hospital manages approximately 2500 patients per year in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and the Step-Down Unit. All attending physicians are either Board-eligible or Board-certified in Critical Care, and are members of the Department of Surgery or Anesthesiology. The SICU and the Step-Down units contain 14 and 6 beds respectively. Both units are equipped with state of the art life support and monitoring systems. In addition to their clinical activities, our surgical intensivists train three fellows a year, as residents in surgery, anesthesia and emergency medicine, medical students, nurses, and physician assistants.