Critical care or intensive care medicine is a branch of medicine that specializes in the care of the sickest patients. These patients are hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and may require complex medical support with machines (i.e., ventilators), intensive or complex monitoring and/or the use of potent intravenous medications. Patients in the ICU typically need close monitoring and help for all their basic needs.

The critical care doctors working in the Fairview Ridges Hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine or General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. They are faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School. They are committed to providing the best possible care and experience in partnership with Fairview Ridges Hospital ICU staff.