Joseph Zalocha - A Critical Care Physician

Joseph Zalocha is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Northside Hospital in the St. Petersburg, Florida area. Joseph Zalocha also manages inpatient services for several other hospitals in the area. As the treasurer for the Medical Executive Council for Northside Hospital, Dr. Zalocha is heavily involved in how the medical fund is used to treat patients and prevent complications, especially in the ICU. Over his long career in the medical field and in helping patients, Dr. Zalocha has become an expert in managing patients with serious neurological problems.   Managing the maintenance fluids for a neurocritical patient is a routine part of the Intensive Care Unit’s duty for physicians like Joseph Zalocha. The amount of fluid infused and the kind of tonicity of the maintenance fluids are critical to understanding how a neurocritical patient will respond to treatment. The impact of these fluids on patients with secondary brain injuries can be huge. R...

Joseph Zalocha is an expert in critical and intensive care. As the director of critical care at Northside Hospital in the St. Petersburg, Florida area, Dr. Zalocha has been in charge of many complicated operations and treatments for emergency situations and life-threatening conditions and diseases. Since the ICU is there to give doctors the best possible way to administer invasive monitoring and operate complex organ support systems, Dr. Zalocha, as the director of this unit, has had to administer ultrasound monitoring to get at the source of many kinds of maladies. Ultrasound-guided central venous access is an extremely complicated procedure that he has had to perform.  Joseph Zalocha has performed central venous cannulation, which is very important and useful for emergency medicine. After this procedure, multiple actions can be taken to help the patient in a life-or-death situation, such as the administration of blood products, nutritional fluids, vasoactive drugs, and...