Transcript Dr. Elapavaluru presentation

HOSA-Future Health Professionals
North Allegheny Intermediate School
Pittsburgh PA
Elapavaluru Subbarao MD
Cardiothoracic Intensivist
Department of Cardiovascular &Thoracic Surgery
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh
Who is an Intensivist
Taking care of the Critically ill patients in ICU
Job description
Work hours
Working with multidisciplinary team
Surgeons
Anesthesiologist
Pharmacists
Nursing staff
Patient relationship
Families Important
• What I like about the Job
• Getting Critically ill patients better and back to health and to their
families
• Cream of all medical branches
• Job satisfaction
• Work with different specialties
• What is the toughest part of job
• Ability to work for long hours
• Ability to take care of multiple issues ( putting out fires )
• Lessons from Aeronautics
• About my self
• Fellowship at UPMC
• CT CCM fellowship at JHH
• Reasons
• Challenging
• Extremely gratifying
• Get better
• Cream of medicine
• Complex problems at the same time
• Ability to work long hours
• Experience at UPMC
• Exposure to complex multiple Critical care specialities like CTS , Trauma ,Neuro
critical care ,VA and elderly care
• One of the major CCM programs
• Experience at JHH
My Job Experience
• Post op care of Cardiac Surgery patients e.g.,.. Coronary artery bypass surgery ,
Valve operations, etc,..
• Complex life threatening surgical emergencies and post op care
• Post operative care of Transplant care -Liver , Heart , Kidneys
• One of the major referral center for ECMO
• Gratifying patients
• Grateful family
• Exciting
• Learning experiences from other Challenging and complex fields like
from Aeronautics / Aviation industry
• Other Medical specialties or Surgical specialties
• Different medical allied fields
• Increasing demand for other medical fields
• Primary care
• CRNA ,Per fusionists , RT etc,.
• What are my inspirations ?
• Seeing Dad in Anatomy, Pathology while growing
• Good inspirational Biology teacher ( My Guru ) in elementary
school
• Excellent teachers in Med school
• Typical day events
• Rounds with medstudents pharm RN RT
• Examining patients making goals of treatment and care plan for the day
• Team work
• Multidisciplinary care
• Procedures in ICU
• Evening rounds
• Sign out to on call attending
- carry the torch
QUESTIONS?