Provides critical cardiac care to medical cardiology patients.
Conditions include but are not limited to:
- acute myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- heart failure
- cardiac dysrhythmias
Medical cardiology patients needing the following will be limited to the CICU at the Foothills Medical Centre:
- IABP therapy
- pulmonary artery catheter monitoring
- mechanical ventilation
- STEMI patient post-primary or rescue PCI within the first 4 hours of the intervention
- Impella ventricular assist device
- targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest