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Published on: September 24, 2020
Development of the Modern Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit and Current Management
Ronald G Pearl1, Sheela Pai Cole1
1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H3589.
Abstract:
The modern cardiothoracic intensive care unit (CTICU) developed as a result of advances in critical care, cardiology, and cardiac surgery. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery today are sicker, frailer, and have more complex cardiac and noncardiac morbidities. CTICU providers need to understand postoperative implications of different surgical procedures, complications that can occur in CTICU patients, resuscitation protocols for cardiac arrest, and diagnostic and therapeutic interventions such as transesophageal echocardiography and mechanical circulatory support. Optimum CTICU care requires a multidisciplinary team with collaboration between cardiac surgeons and critical care physicians with training and experience in the care of CTICU patients.
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