The Changing Epidemiology of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Cardiac intensive care unit
Critical care cardiology
Demographics
Epidemiology
Technology
Journal
Critical care clinics
ISSN: 1557-8232
Titre abrégé: Crit Care Clin
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8507720
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Historique:
medline:
27
11
2023
pubmed:
17
11
2023
entrez:
16
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Coronary care units (CCUs) were originally designed to monitor and treat peri-infarction ventricular arrhythmias but have evolved into highly specialized cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) that provide care to a patient population that is increasingly heterogeneous and complex. Paralleling broader epidemiologic trends, patients admitted to contemporary CICUs are older and have a greater burden of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular comorbidities. Moreover, contemporary CICU patients have high illness severity and often present with acute noncardiac organ dysfunction. In addition to these shifting demographic patterns, there have been important epidemiologic changes in CICU technologies, multidisciplinary systems of care, and physician staffing and training.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37973347
pii: S0749-0704(23)00074-X
doi: 10.1016/j.ccc.2023.09.001
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1-13Informations de copyright
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