The Coronary Intensive Care Unit (CICU) provides care for acutely ill patients who are experiencing problems relating to heart disease. Our nurses manage patients requiring life support machines, monitoring and special intravenous medications. As the provincial centre for adult congenital disease, patients experiencing problems in this area also come to the CICU.
Patients come to the CICU because they need highly skilled medical professionals and special modern technology and medicine.
The majority of our patients have been diagnosed with:
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congenital heart defects
- Aortic dissection
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Pre LVAD assessment and care
- Cardiogenic shock
We also offer care in the areas of:
- Pre-transplant assessment
- Post percutaneous valve implantation (aortic, mitral valve clip and pulmonary)
