by GucciRN22

I just looked at job openings at a hospital that has three ICUs: A cardiovascular ICU, a coronary ICU, and a regular ICU. Why do they have a coronay and a cardiovascular ICU? Are they different?

Again, I'm sorry if this makes me sounds stupid. My hospital only has one ICU and our major heart stuff goes downtown to a sister hospital (which kinda sucks cause seeing more of that would be interesting!) so I was just wondering.

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Mabye one just deals mostly with the open hearts and the other deals with other cardiac issues? Just a guess.

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our cv unit is for open hearts, coronary is for acute mi, and other cardiac issues.

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Coronary ICU could handle the CHF'ers as well as the ACS's . . .

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I would say that they seperate their open hearts and cardiac cath pts?

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The CCU is likely for medical cardiology patients where as the CVICU is for surgical cardiology to include post op hearts, lungs, vascular, and thoracic transplant.

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Originally Posted by meandragonbrett

The CCU is likely for medical cardiology patients where as the CVICU is for surgical cardiology to include post op hearts, lungs, vascular, and thoracic transplant.

I concur!