Clinical Consult Services
We provide clinical consult to individual patients as well as hospitals and health care institutions.
For Patients:
Our team of board certified experienced specialists can help patients in the following ways:
- Second opinion in critical care for patients and families
- Second opinion for hospice and palliative care candidates
- Terminal illness symptom management for patients and families
- Family and patient counseling on end of life crisis
For Hospitals and Health Care Institutions:
Our board certified critical care and palliative care specialists can contribute to the intensivist and palliative care program at your health care institution in the following ways:
- On site intensivist program
- Remote intensivist consult
- Palliative care consult
- Hospice consult
- Hospice Medical directorship
Research Consult Services
We provide research consulting to individual health care professionals, life science industry and medical device companies, hospitals and health care institutions, residency and fellowship programs and accreditation agencies in design and conduct of the following studies:
For Life-Science Industry and Medical Device Companies:
- Pilot Study Design
- Design of phase I, II or III clinical trials
- Pre and Post marketing surveys
- Quality Control Studies
For Hospitals and Health care institutions:
- Quality Control Projects
- Morbidity and Mortality Assessment
For Accreditation Agencies:
- Quality Improvement Studies
- Site Surveys and Oversights
For Residency and Fellowship programs:
- Dissertation Assistance
- Design and Conduct of Quality Control Projects
- Design of Translational or Clinical Research
- Interim Data Analysis.
- Pre-submission Manuscript Reviews
Educational Services
We offer educational consult services to residency programs. Additionally, we offer educational workshops and seminars for resident physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals as the following:
ICU Subject Matter Courses:
- Hemodynamic monitoring methods
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter waveforms interpretation
- Circulatory shock, diagnosis and management
- Nutrition in ICU
- ICU delirium and sedation in intubated patient
- Mechanical ventilation and ventilator management
- Liberation from mechanical ventilation
- Airway management
- CPR
Hospice and Palliative Care Subject Matter Courses:
- End of life discussions with patient and the family
- When to introduce palliative care
- What is hospice and who benefits from it
- Hospice for dementia patients
- Hospice for end stage heart failure and COPD
- Hospice for metastatic end-stage cancer patients
- How to deliver bad news
Procedural Courses:
- Difficult airway management
- Central venous catheter placement
- PICC line placement
- US guidance for vascular access
- Arterial catheter placement
- Thoracentesis
- Paracentesis