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Cardiac Critical Care

Children's National Heart Institute
Children’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is staffed with a team of expert cardiac physicians and pediatric nurses to treat and aid in the recovery of children with cardiac diseases and those who have had heart surgery. While most of our patients are those who are admitted to the hospital after cardiac surgery, the CICU also cares for patients with non-surgical conditions, such as heart failure and myocarditis, and children with heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery. The Cardiac ICU is directed by a physician who is dually boarded in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care medicine.
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The new 13-bed unit features private patient rooms with facilities designed to provide optimal family-centered care. Children’s CICU provides state-of-the-art recovery and monitoring techniques designed specifically for recovering pediatric cardiac surgery patient. The team employs the latest technologies, such as rapid deployment of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) monitors.

The CICU staff is a multidisciplinary team dedicated exclusively to treating neonates through adults with critical cardiac needs. Children’s CICU is the region’s first and only pediatric cardiac ICU and includes an integrated cardiac team with all sub-specialists readily available and accessible. The unit-based staff includes a dedicated pharmacist, respiratory therapist, social worker, nurses, as well as physicians from the divisions of critical care medicine, cardiology, and cardiac surgery.

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