Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

​​When children need immediate, critical care, you can trust the experienced intensive care team at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Our unit is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Led by pediatric intensivists and hospitalists, our multi-disciplinary team includes advanced practice providers (PAs/APRNs), pediatric nurse​s, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, dietitians, social workers and child life specialists.​

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) staffed by pediatric intensivists
• Inpatient Care Unit staffed by pediatric hospitalists
• Inpatient and outpatient surgical services
• Over 20 pediatric specialty care clinics
• 6 Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) suites

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Boys Town Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Inpatient Care Unit provide treatment and care for children with:

• Bronchiolitis with respiratory distress/failure requiring non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation
• Pneumonia with respiratory compromise
• Status asthmaticus; asthma
• Ingestion including those requiring endotracheal intubation
• Status epilepticus including those that get intubated after benzodiazepines
• DKA
• Sepsis