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  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Health Systems Research

Background:

  • Tertiary cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) frequently admit transferred patients from other hospitals.
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  • transfer population
  • is underrepresented in critical care research and poorly characterized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the demographic, clinical, and outcome profiles of patients transferred to advanced CICUs.
  • To identify differences in care requirements and mortality between transferred and non-transferred patients.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of consecutive CICU admissions from a North American network (Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network) between 2017-2023.
  • Stratification of patients into transfer and non-transfer groups, with adjustments for age, sex, site, and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score.
  • Data collected during 2-month annual snapshots.

Main Results:

  • Transfers constituted 38% of admissions and 42% of patient-CICU-days.
  • Transferred patients were more likely to be admitted for acute coronary syndrome, experience shock, and require mechanical ventilation, renal replacement therapy, and invasive monitoring.
  • In-hospital mortality was higher for transfers (15% vs 11%, adjusted OR: 1.15).

Conclusions:

  • Transferred patients represent over one-third of tertiary CICU admissions and necessitate more complex care.
  • This high-risk cohort exhibits increased mortality compared to non-transferred patients.
  • Findings inform regional care systems, communication protocols, and risk-adjusted reporting for transferred cardiac patients.