Treatment
Services in the Coronary Care Unit include:
- Management of patients with acute myocardial infarction, unstable angina, congestive heart failure, and life threatening arrhythmias
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP)
- Swan-Ganz / PA Catheter
- Titration of intravenous therapy
- Insertion of temporary pacemakers
- Ultrafiltration for Congestive Heart Failure
- Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)
- Ventricular assist devise (VAD )