The Changing Face of Critical Care Cardiology

It's not your father's coronary care unit anymore. Which patients comprise the modern cardiac intensive care unit (CICU)? In this video, Dr. Shashank Sinha examines comprehensive national data on the number, types and outcomes of patients admitted to CICUs over the past decade. Temporal trends demonstrate a rise in primary non-cardiac diagnoses, leading to important training and staffing implications. Changes in Primary Noncardiac Diagnoses Over Time Among Elderly Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Patients in the United States (http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/c...) Accompanying Editorial (Dr. David Morrow, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Brigham and Women's Hospital) (http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/c...) Digital Learning Tools: The Slopegraph (https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/co...) The Heatmap (https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/co...) Dr. Shashank Sinha on Social Media: LinkedIn (  / shashank-sinha-md-msc-39689b100  ) Twitter (  / shashanksinhamd  ) Michigan Medicine Headlines (https://umhsheadlines.org/2017/06/car...)