Program Overview


Overview of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program

Loyola Medicine's flagship hospital, Loyola University Medical Center, is a quaternary care facility with 547 licensed beds, a Level I Trauma Center, nationally recognized Burn Center and renowned Transplant Center.

Loyola University Medical Center provides top hospital care in all medical and surgical specialties including orthopaedics, nephrology, cardiology, oncology, ophthalmology and surgery. Loyola University Medical Center is also rated as having one of the highest patient acuity level in Illinois.

Loyola University Medical Center is located in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, IL.

Surgical Intensive Care Unit

The surgical intenstive care unit (SICU) is a 24-bed ICU which runs at 97% occupancy. The division provides comprehensive services in state-of-the-art resuscitation and intensive care units for patients of all ages with acute surgical illness or injury.

Patients in the surgical intensive care unit are managed by members of the division of trauma, surgical critical care and burns in collaboration with their primary surgeons.

A multidisciplinary team dedicated solely to the care of the critically ill and injured is led by attendings board certified in surgical critical care and the fellow.

Assisting them are surgical residents, advanced practice providers, clinical pharmacists, nutritionists and a social workers. All have expertise in caring for these complex, critically ill patients.

Level 1 Trauma Center

Loyola University Medical Center is the only American College of Surgeons-verified Level 1 trauma center in the State of Illinois. Loyola serves as a tertiary and quaternary referral center for trauma patients with complex injuries.

Loyola’s trauma service accepts all patients in need of high-level trauma care. Annually approximately 1,500 patients are seen and admitted by the trauma team.

ABA Certified Burn Center

Loyola’s American College of Surgeons and American Burn Association-verified Burn Center is nationally renowned for its comprehensive approach to burn care. Since the inception of the Burn Center decades ago, Loyola has been a regional referral center and leader in burn care and research.

Housed in a dedicated 10-bed Burn ICU, patients with burn injuries and soft tissue infections are treated by faculty, nurses, pharmacists, and dieticians all dedicated specifically to burn care.

Intra-abdominal Solid Organ Transplant Center

Loyola is one of only three centers in Illinois that perform transplantation of five major solid organs: heart, lung, kidney, liver and pancreas. We began our solid organ transplant program in 1971 with our first kidney transplant.

Loyola established Chicago's first heart transplant program in 1984, Chicago's first lung transplant program in 1988 and our liver transplant program in 1997.

The surgical ICU team works closely with the transplant service in the postoperative management of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants, including multi-organ transplants.

Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute

The Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute (BSTRI) of Loyola University Chicago is a unique community of scientists and clinicians devoted to the study of traumatic injury. As a multidisciplinary research institute, our programs include both clinical and laboratory research relevant to trauma injury and burns.

In our laboratories, our scientists investigate the body's reaction to injury and infection, with the hope that their research findings may someday lead to innovative therapies for trauma and burn patients.

In the hospital, institute members and clinicians work together on numerous clinical studies and clinical trials. To ensure the future of our research, the Institute also maintains a strong commitment to the research training of pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and clinical trainees.

Overall, the goal of our integrated programs is to reduce the devastating effects of traumatic injury.