Yale has long experience in caring for the most vulnerable pediatric patients. In the early 1960s, a Yale physician started the world’s first newborn intensive care unit (NICU), recognizing that such young patients needed their own space with dedicated resources in order to deliver the best and safest care. Today, our skilled physicians, who are trained in both pediatrics and critical care medicine, work quickly to stabilize, evaluate, and treat infants, children, and adolescents with life-threatening medical and surgical problems. We collaborate with pediatric and surgical specialists, as well as those in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, to bring a multidisciplinary approach to critical care. Our medical and nursing staff are close to our patients at all times. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit multidisciplinary team includes pediatric critical care attending physicians and fellows, pediatric residents, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, child life specialists, case managers, social workers, and nutritionists. The team works around the clock to ensure attentive care to infants, children, and teens recovering from catastrophic illness, trauma, or surgery.

At any time and every day of the year, our highly trained specialists are equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to prevent, diagnose, and manage a vast array of acute illness and injuries among infants, children, and adolescents. We collaborate with pediatric medical and surgical specialists to bring the best emergency care to infants and children. Each year, the Pediatric Emergency Department at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, a Level I trauma center, treats more than 40,000 children from infancy to age 20. The state-of-the-art, dedicated children’s department features 16 rooms and two major treatment/trauma rooms. It is in close proximity to but distinctly separate from the adult emergency department, and is staffed by physicians and nurses skilled in caring for children. Full-time pediatricians, each of whom has completed additional training in pediatric emergency medicine, oversee patient care. Our staff is ready for any medical emergency, but common conditions we treat include: Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses Poisoning, including environmental toxins Major and minor trauma, including head injury Suspected child abuse and neglect Abdominal emergencies Behavioral and psychiatric emergencies In addition to our attending emergency medicine physicians, our team includes fellows, physician assistants, pediatric residents, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, sexual assault nurse examiners, and forensic experts. Our patients have 24-hour access to experts from all pediatric specialties, including toxicology and critical care. Child life specialists and pediatric social workers are also ready to ease the emergency room experience for children and families. Our team is expert in the fields of bedside ultrasound, injury prevention, and disaster preparedness.

At Yale Medicine, our pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine physicians focus on your respiratory health. We have a team of specialists to diagnose, treat, and manage respiratory conditions that affect your lungs and breathing. From asthma to complex lung diseases, our goal is to help you breathe easier. Our doctors are board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care, and sleep medicine. These expert physicians work closely with specialists in cardiology, diagnostic radiology, and pathology to provide you with comprehensive care for your respiratory condition. Office visits take place at the Winchester Center for Lung Disease in North Haven, Connecticut. Our sleep specialists treat most types of sleep disorders and see patients at our sleep centers at 3 locations in New Haven County. Specialized care is offered in the following areas: Adult cystic fibrosis Asthma and airway diseases Bronchiectasis and chronic pulmonary infections Cardiorespiratory exercise testing Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Clinical research in a wide range of lung diseases Interstitial lung disease Lung cancer screening and pulmonary nodule evaluation Medical intensive care unit for pulmonary conditions Multidisciplinary sleep care Pulmonary embolism Pulmonary function laboratory Pulmonary vascular disease Sleep apnea and other sleep disorders Thoracic interventional pulmonary embolism Thoracic oncology Tuberculosis