Pediatric critical care is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and management of life-threatening conditions requiring sophisticated organ support and invasive monitoring. It is a field of pediatrics with a focus on the utmost care of the critically ill or unstable children. Pediatric critical care can be found working in a wide variety of environments and specialties such as general intensive care units, medical intensive care units, surgical intensive care units, trauma intensive care units, coronary care units, cardiothoracic intensive care units, etc.
