Intensive Care (Critical Care) Services & Treatment in La Crosse
We provide an atmosphere of healing for the most seriously ill or injured patients in our Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care Unit (ICU/CCU) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Specially trained staff deliver comprehensive, specialized care to diverse patient populations with critical medical needs. These include cardiac, general surgical, trauma, neurological, neurosurgical, medical respiratory, infectious, psychiatry and psychology, intermediate level, and other patients who require specialized nursing care and services, such as post-anesthesia recovery patients when the Post Anesthesia Care Unit is not available to take additional patients.. We also collaborate with Hospital Medicine and Internal Medicine staff on your or your loved one's care.
Specialty services within ICU/CCU include:
- Continuous renal replacement therapy
- Hypothermia for post-cardiac arrest patients
- Post-pulmonary vein isolation or ablation patients.
Enhanced Critical Care
Enhanced Critical Care is an electronic intensive care unit designed to improve care and shorten hospital stays. Critically ill patients are monitored bedside by local physicians and nurses, and remotely by specially trained critical care physicians and nurses at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
In-room computers, high-quality video cameras and audio monitors transmit patient data, including vital signs, test results and imaging exams, from the bedside to an operations center. There, the physician and nurse team continuously review the information to watch for trends that could mean potential problems. When a change is detected, the team alerts local staff so they can address the situation. Two-way televisions and video cameras allow operations center staff to communicate with local staff, patients and their families.
Local physicians and nurses continue to care for patients as they always have. A local physician directs each patient's care.
Benefits of Enhanced Critical Care include early detection and treatment of problems, shorter hospital stays, improved patient results and reduced cost of care. The service is provided at no additional cost to patients.
Please talk with any staff member if you have questions or concerns about Enhanced Critical Care.
View the Enhanced Critical Care brochure.
For additional information, contact our switchboard at 608-785-0940 and ask for the Intensive Care Unit.
