Intensive Care (Critical Care) Services & Treatment in Mankato

If you're seriously ill or injured and admitted to our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Mankato, Minnesota, you'll receive high-level care, 24 hours a day.

Our intensivists and specially trained staff deliver expert care for patients with cardiac, surgical, neurosurgical, trauma and other critical medical needs. In addition, as part of our Enhanced Critical Care Program, highly skilled critical care physicians and nurses at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, monitor patients remotely.

What is an intensivist?

An intensivist is a provider who specializes in caring for you while you're in the ICU. Intensivists work together to establish and implement a personalized plan to provide the exact care you need for a fast and efficient recovery.

Benefits of working with an intensivist include:

• They're specially trained to care for critically ill patients.
• They're easily accessible in emergencies or when questions arise.
• They're familiar with our hospital processes and procedures, so they can conveniently order tests, consult other specialists and adjust treatments.

Enhanced Critical Care

Enhanced Critical Care is an electronic intensive care unit designed to improve care and shorten hospital stays. Critically ill patients are monitored bedside by local physicians and nurses, and remotely by specially trained critical care physicians and nurses at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

In-room computers, high-quality video cameras and audio monitors transmit patient data, including vital signs, test results and imaging exams, from the bedside to an operations center. There, the physician and nurse team continuously review the information to watch for trends that could mean potential problems. When a change is detected, the team alerts local staff so they can address the situation. Two-way televisions and video cameras allow operations center staff to communicate with local staff, patients and their families.

Local physicians and nurses continue to care for patients as they always have. A local physician directs each patient's care.

Benefits of Enhanced Critical Care include early detection and treatment of problems, shorter hospital stays, improved patient results and reduced cost of care. The service is provided at no additional cost to patients.

Please talk with any staff member if you have questions about Enhanced Critical Care.

View the Enhanced Critical Care brochure.