Central FL Pediatric Intensive Care Specialist
Central Florida Pediatric Intensive Care Specialist (CFPICS) is a Hospitalist and Intensivist Practice.
CFPICS has assisted primary care physicians with over 18,000 of their patients since the establishment of their practice in January of 1994.
Hospitalist programs have been established to oversee:
- All inpatient care in a cost-effective and more efficient manner.
- By remaining on-site and dedicated to inpatients, hospitalists are able to assist primary care physicians by conducting rounds more frequently.
- Responding to patient needs and facilitating immediate reactions to changes in patient conditions.
- As well as ensuring a more rapid discharge process.
Serving the 10-county Central Florida area, CFPICS is fellowship trained, board-certified intensivists working in the Florida Hospital System with privileges at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women and consulting availability at Health Central Hospital.
About Our Services
Committed to providing quality and personalized pediatric and adolescent critical care, Dr.'s Ayodeji Otegbeye, Vivek Desai, Oludapo Soremi, Mranali Patel and Luis Seguias have vast experience in and offer the following services:
- Pediatric inpatient hospital care
- Critical care
- Emergency room evaluations
- Office consultation
- Pediatric pulmonary medicine
- Care of technology-dependent children with various disabilities, including post-organ transplant patients and those with complex pediatric medical problems
- Flexible fiberoptic pediatric bronchoscopy
- Care of congenital anomalies and immunodeficiencies Interpretation of pneumocardiograms
- Interpretation of event recording for patients on apnea monitors
- In-office intravenous infusion services
CFPICS will coordinate all aspects of inpatient care, from admitting the patient to completing the discharge summary. As intensivists, the physicians at CFPICS will also be responsible for pediatric intensive care and pediatric progressive care hospital admissions. CFPICS will coordinate the following:
- Admit patients
- Perform diagnostic tests
- Complete daily patient rounds
- Order consultations
- Prescribe medications
- Manage patient care complications and difficulties as they arise
- Communicate with primary care physicians and patients’ families
- Evaluate patients in the Emergency Room
- Oversee discharge planning
- Oversee post-discharge follow-up when needed
- Coordinate all out-of-area and out-of-network admissions and transfers
- Coordinate care with hospital and insurance companies