Physician / Pulmonology

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