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Trauma,
Surgical Critical Care & Burns Services
Loyola
University Health System (Loyola) is considered a national
leader in trauma and emergency services. The trauma,
surgical critical care & burns practice provides
comprehensive services for patients of all ages with
critical illness or injury. Pediatric critical care
physicians provide specialized care to critically ill
infants and children. In addition, trauma and critical
care specialists often work with other medical specialties,
including internal medicine, plastic surgery, wound
care, orthopaedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology,
neurology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology and psychiatry.
Areas of emphasis in surgical critical care include
ventilatory management, hemodynamic support, nutrition,
and comprehensive treatment of severe surgical infections.
Burn
specialists treat thermal injuries, electrical burns,
chemical injury, frostbite, inhalation injury, complex
soft-tissue infections and toxic epidermal necrolysis
(scalded skin syndrome). Loyola’s Burn Center
is one of the busiest and largest in Illinois and has
one of the most modern facilities in the Midwest.
Specialty
Services
Chest
Pain Emergency Evaluation Center
Patients with chest pain who arrive at Loyola University
Medical Center’s emergency department immediately
receive an electrocardiogram (EKG), any necessary blood
work and evaluation by a physician.
Level
I Trauma Center
The trauma center has the highest designation possible
in Illinois and specializes in the resuscitation and
care of patients with multiple injuries.
LIFESTAR
Aeromedical Transport
The LIFESTAR helicopter is available 24 hours a day
to transport critically ill and injured patients within
150 miles of Loyola’s trauma center.
Stroke
Center
Loyola’s
emergency stroke team is adept at immediately determining
the best course of treatment for stroke via a variety
of testing and diagnostic procedures.
Professional
Education
As the principal resource hospital in Chicago’s
western suburbs, Loyola University Medical Center provides
education to emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
Research
Through
the Stritch School of Medicine’s Burn and Shock
Trauma Institute, a community of scientists and clinicians
is devoted to the study of traumatic injury and burns.
Locations
and Contacts
A full spectrum of trauma, surgical critical
care and burns services is available in Maywood at:
Loyola
University Medical Center
If you would like to make an appointment or need assistance to find an appropriate physician, please call us at (888) LUHS-888.
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Burn and Shock Trauma Institute
Director
Thomas J. Esposito, MD, MPH, FACS, AAST
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