Originally Posted by fitnessangel25
CCU= Cardiac Care Unit
CTSU= Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit
CICU= ?
I want to take care of patients after bypass surgery/heart surgery. Which unit would be best? Thank you!
Depends totally on the hospital that you are inquiring at:
I've worked at many different hospitals and they all called their open heart surgery unit something different. Inquire at the hospitals in your area. Find out who does a large number of cardio-thoracic procedures. Call up the nurse manager and ask what they look for in new staff when they interview. If you have what they are looking for.........GREAT! If not..........work towards it.
Units I have worked in that included OHS patients:
CRU - cardiac recovery unit - post OHS unit
CCU - coronary care unit - several did not include OHS patients, a couple were "combo" units that had medicine as well as surgical cardiac patients
CICU - cardiac intensive care unit - mostly MI patients; a couple units were combo medical & surgical units
CCCU- cardiac comprehensive care unit - combo medical and surgical cardiac patients
CVICU - cardiovascular intensive care unit - mostly surgical, but did work in one unit that called itself CVICU that was both medical and surgical patients
CTSU - I haven't personally worked in unit with this designation
Hope this helps.
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