Cardiac ICU Nurses work in Intensive Healthcare Units and are responsible for providing medical care to patients who have undergone cardiac surgery, valve replacements or heart transplants. Some of their areas of expertise are airway management, pain management, hemodynamics, and heart rhythm interpretation.
If your loved one has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital, this means that his or her illness is serious enough to require the most careful degree of medical monitoring and the highest level of medical care.
Some patients need to be sedated for hours, days or even weeks. Usually when the problem for which they were admitted to the ICU has gone away, the anesthetic will be turned off so they can be assessed. If they are doing well then the breathing tube can be taken out
Cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) is a hospital ward that specializes in the care of patients who have experienced ischemic heart disease as well as other severe heart disease. Furthermore, the patients in the CICU often have various complications such as respiratory failure and renal failure.
The CICU is a distinct unit, staffed by a distinct team of providers, where babies, children, teens and young adults who are critically ill with heart problems are cared for by a medical team with special training and expertise.
Our CICU puts us in an elite class of children’s hospitals in the nation. Ours is the only pediatric CICU in the Pacific Northwest – the next closest is more than 700 miles away.
Heart issues are very complex and can be life-threatening. Yet, in most hospitals, pediatric heart patients are cared for on a general pediatric intensive care unit by doctors and nurses who treat a wide variety of medical issues.
Having a dedicated team with advanced training and experience in caring for children with heart problems leads to better care and better outcomes – and a better experience for patients and their families.
Even the design of the CICU allows our team to care for patients more carefully. Our caregivers’ work stations are within steps of our patient rooms. This offers children and families the comfort of being able to see and contact their doctors and nurses when needed. Small, glass-enclosed conference rooms within sight of patient rooms let the care team watch each child even while meeting.
Being in the hospital with your child can be difficult. The 16 single-patient rooms on our CICU are designed to ease a family’s stay. Amenities include:
Director of Cath lab Latamangeshkar Hospital Digdoh Hills HingnaHead of Cardiology Department
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