Critical care surgery is surgery on patients in the emergency unit or critical care unit of a hospital. A critical care or trauma surgeon is a physician who performs emergency surgery on patients who are critically ill. The critical care surgeon may also communicate with the patient’s primary physician and other specialists, and the critical care staff to coordinate treatment and care. This surgeon has a comprehensive surgery background, and is knowledgeable in a wide variety of surgical procedures and life-threatening injuries.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 2,451 practicing critical care surgeons. Broken out by state, critical care surgery doctor density in Alabama is 24, in Alaska is 3, in Arizona is 44, in Arkansas is 9, in California is 232, in Colorado is 47, in Connecticut is 54, in Delaware is 11, in District of Columbia is 19, in Florida is 164, in Georgia is 52, in Hawaii is 9, in Idaho is 3, in Illinois is 100, in Indiana is 34, in Iowa is 26, in Kansas is 23, in Kentucky is 39, in Louisiana is 29, in Maine is 27, in Maryland is 66, in Massachusetts is 84, in Michigan is 121, in Minnesota is 56, in Mississippi is 12, in Missouri is 80, in Nebraska is 13, in Nevada is 24, in New Hampshire is 3, in New Jersey is 77, in New Mexico is 14, in New York is 175, in North Carolina is 76, in North Dakota is 6, in Ohio is 113, in Oklahoma is 20, in Oregon is 38, in Pennsylvania is 178, in Rhode Island is 8, in South Carolina is 19, in South Dakota is 2, in Tennessee is 63, in Texas is 161, in Utah is 11, in Vermont is 7, in Virginia is 68, in Washington is 43, in West Virginia is 26, in Wisconsin is 32, and in Wyoming is 2.
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