Physician / Pulmonology - Critical Care / Missouri / Permanent / Nocturnal Pulmo

Nocturnal Pulmonary/Critical Care - Southwestern Missouri seeks a physician for our pulmonary/critical care department. This physician must be BC/BE in critical care medicine and will join an existing practice of eight physicians. The physicians within this department practice outpatient pulmonary medicine and lead the intensivist program at Medical Center, a 706-bed, Level 1 Trauma Center in, Missouri. Medical Center includes 76 adult critical care patient rooms. NOCTURNIST CRITICAL CARE INTENSIVIST Clinical Patient Management Tele-ICU Typical Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Evaluate and treat new adult admissions and intervene to prevent further deterioration. Diagnose and stabilize critically ill medical and surgical patients with impending or active organ failure (respiratory, cardiac, neurologic, hepatic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, renal, etc.) or life-threatening electrolyte and acid-base disturbances or poisonings. Initiate advanced cardiac life support until the code team arrives, then supervise and support the code team. Use data from appropriate monitoring devices to titrate therapy in the ICU. Initiate, manage, and wean patients from mechanical ventilation using various techniques and ventilators. Act as the ICU team leader where appropriate and increase the clinical skill of ICU nurse practitioners, nurses