Extensively educated and trained in a vast array of competencies: Neuro ICU: monitoring patients with External Ventricular Devices (EVDs), assessing, calibrating, and skillfully caring for them; assisting Neurosurgeons to insert EVD at bedside, lumbar drains and their monitoring, caring for patients with extensive strokes or brain injuries and complications such as increased intracranial pressure, herniation of brain, hydrocephalus. Cardiothoracic ICU: Intra-aortic balloon pumps, continuous renal replacement therapy, vented patients, arterial lines, Swan-Ganz catheters, hemodynamic monitoring; assisting intensivists with patient intubations, placing central lines and/or chest tubes, wedging pulmonary artery pressures, monitoring and managing various hemodynamic instabilities.