Shasta Critical Care Specialists

Health Services

At Shasta Critical Care Specialists our primary concern is patient care and service for both our outpatients and patients at area hospitals. Our physicians provide many services for a range of health conditions.

Nephrology

Drs. Bruce Bartlow, Jeffrey Krahling and Sriram Sambasivan are board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and nephrology with decades of experience in caring for patients with chronic kidney disease and kidney failure.

• Acute Kidney Failure
  • Consultation and management of acute kidney failure and Hemodialysis on patients in all of our community hospitals.
• Chronic Kidney Failure
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Hypertension
  • Management of Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Kidney diseases and hypertension in pregnancy
  • Kidney stones
  • Vasculitis
  • Diabetic Nephropathy
  • Lupus Nephropathy
  • Proteinuria
  • Hematuria
• End Stage Renal Disease
  • Preparation for dialysis
  • Provision of dialysis care
    • Peritoneal dialysis
    • Hemodialysis
  • Transplantation – evaluation and referral for organ transplantation
    • Kidney
    • Pancreas
  • Kidney trauma and infection
  • Diabetic kidney disease
  • Hereditary kidney diseases
  • Hospital-based critical illness including respiratory and multiple organ failure, shock, sepsis, trauma, and cardiac/cardiovascular diseases
• Plasmapheresis
• Dialysis Units
  • DaVita – Redding Dialysis
  • DCI

Pulmonology

Drs. Rafael Lupercio is board certified in pulmonary disease with particular expertise in the management of asthma and chronic lung ailments.

Dr. Lupercio has a special interest in the diagnosis, management and treatment of patients with pulmonary hypertension. He has lectured abroad on the subject and participates in local trials for new therapeutic agents.

• COPD
  • Emphysema
  • Chronic bronchitis
• Asthma
• Allergy
• Rhinitis
• Smoking cessation
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Sleep disorder
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lung cancer
• Hemoptysis
• Pulmonary nodules
• Sarcoidosis
• Tuberculosis

Critical Care Medicine

Our members have over 150 years of combined critical care experience. Drs. Bartlow, Krahling, Lupercio and Sambasivan are board certified in critical care medicine. With an aging population and a nationwide shortage of critical care specialists we are proud to treat and serve the patients in our community who have a variety of life threatening illnesses (see attached link for crisis in critical care). As critical care specialists we have cross trained in other specialties including Pulmonary Diseases, Nephrology, and Internal Medicine. We provide a broad and comprehensive system approach to our patients keeping the quality of life and family support as our main goal.

• ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
• Respiratory failure
• Congestive heart failure
• Anemia
• Bleeding disorders
• Sepsis

The practice has always provided management and subspecialty consultations for hospitalized patients. The group is now available to provide hospitalist services for all medical problems which require inpatient care. Shasta Critical Care Specialists make the following commitment to providers:

• 24/7 availability for admissions, inpatient care and discharge coordination
• Including you in all significant decisions affecting your patients
• Continuity of care between general medicine, critical care, nephrology, pulmonology and immunology
• Coordination with you at the time of discharge, assuring seamless discharge planning and ongoing post-hospital care
• Minimizing costs and length of stay whenever possible, optimizing SNF/rehab/home care after hospitalization

Critical Care Procedures

• Intubations
• Bronchoscopy
• Central line placements
• Swan Ganz Catheter placement
• Hemodynamic measurements and management
• Arterial line placement
• Hemodialysis
• Plasmapheresis
• Myasthenia graves
• Acute and chronic demyelinating diseases

Community Services

Shasta Critical Care Specialists support progress in medicine with participation in national professional groups, publications and workshops throughout the country.

Public Speaking

The physicians at Shasta Critical Care Specialists deliver lectures and community education throughout the area including the pacific coast, Mt. Shasta, Susanville, and Alturas as well as local hospitals. The range of topics is broad including medical ethics and end-of-life considerations to COPD and pulmonary hypertension. Learn more about available speakers.

Teaching

Members of Shasta Critical Care Specialists are credentialed with UC Davis as Assistant Professors of Medicine and they are actively involved in teaching the Family Practice residents at Mercy Medical Center, Redding.

Publications

Members of the practice are accomplished authors and have published clinical papers and/or books. For details select from the following:

• Bruce Bartlow, MD