Critical Care
Consistent coverage. Early intervention. Reliable routines.
When a patient becomes critically ill, minutes—and teamwork—matter. On-site, hybrid, or Tele-Critical Care. It’s your choice. We apply the Sound Critical Care Top Five to stay in lockstep with your nurse leaders and, most importantly, provide innovative clinical interventions for your patients. Empower your intensive care unit (ICU) to deliver safer care, without adding workload or cost surprises to your team or your budget.
Explore the Critical Care model that fits your team
Every ICU has different staffing, coverage, and access needs. Sound builds around yours with on-site, hybrid, and virtual Critical Care models that give bedside teams the expertise and support to act quickly, coordinate care, and keep more complex patients close to home.
On-site Critical Care
Experienced intensivists and local physician leadership integrated with your ICU team.
Hybrid Critical Care
On-site coverage reinforced by virtual intensivist support where and when your team needs it.
Tele-Critical Care
24/7 virtual intensivist support that extends Critical care expertise to the bedside—without requiring every specialist to be on site. Learn more. >
Intensive care medicine podcast
Critical Matters
Join longtime intensivist Sergio Zanotti, MD, FCCM, in conversation with accomplished thought leaders across the healthcare spectrum on his biweekly Critical Care podcast.
Since its first episode in 2019, “Critical Matters” has offered thought-provoking deep dives into all things related to intensive care medicine. From ECMO emergencies to surviving sepsis, Dr. Zanotti’s podcast covers broad terrain with unique clinical insights for intensivists and critical care advanced practice providers who work every day to improve the quality of healthcare for patients coast to coast.
As Chief Executive Officer for Sound Critical Care, Dr. Zanotti oversees intensivists nationwide who care for more than 170,000 ICU patients annually. In addition to being a healthcare leader and podcast host, Dr. Zanotti is a prolific author, lecturer, and researcher.
What sets us apart
You want an ICU that’s steady under pressure. Clear roles. Faster decisions. Dignity for every patient. We help you get there by embedding a clinician-led team with a local medical director who knows your community. Together, we co-design your ICU model—with our Critical Care Top Five helps guide your results:
Multidisciplinary rounds
Intensivist-led, patient- and family-aligned rounds that set the plan of care for the day and remove barriers early.
Practice guidelines
Unit-specific, evidence-based playbooks your medical director owns and updates, so teams practice the same high standard of care.
Action plans
Regular reviews that turn data into named owners, deadlines, and fixes, driving continuous improvement you can measure.
Team huddles
Daily 10-minute huddles and twice-monthly intensivist task forces to keep priorities clear and escalate issues before they become delays.
Communication
One source of truth across bedside, electronic health records, Tele-Critical Care, the emergency department, and hospital medicine, so handoffs are smooth and decisions move faster.
“Through our partnership with Sound, we were able to increase our inpatient census and care for a higher-acuity group of patients.”
System Medical Director
Tele-Critical Care: Intensivists on demand. Expanded access. 24/7.
When coverage is thin, volumes spike, or geography makes recruiting tough, you still need steady ICU decisions. With Tele-Critical Care, Sound partners with your on-site teams to extend board-certified intensivists into your ICUs, inpatient floors, or emergency department—at night, on weekends, during surge, or continuously.
We co-design when tele-coverage engages, integrate with nursing and hospital medicine, and work in your electronic health record. You get faster escalation, calmer nights, and predictable costs, without losing local ownership. This is Tele-Critical Care done right.
Teaching and clinical leadership programs
Grow local leaders. Sustain performance. You need confident ICU leadership that can run a calm, reliable practice. We invest in your medical directors and APP leaders with a structured path—from onboarding and ongoing coaching to development and retention—so your team practices the same high standard of care every shift.
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