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New challenges in cardiac intensive care units

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Critical care cardiology is a steadily and rapidly developing sub-specialization within cardiovascular medicine, since the first emergence of a coronary care unit in the early 1960s. Today, modern cardiac intensive care units (CICU) serve a complex patient population with a high burden of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular critical illnesses. Treatment of these patients requires a multidisciplinary approach, with a combination of highly specialized knowledge and skills in cardiovascular diseases, as well as emergency, critical-care and internal medicine. The CICU has always posed special challenges to both experienced intensivists as well as fellows-in-training (FIT) and is certainly one of the most demanding training phases. In recent years, these challenges have grown significantly owing to technological innovations, with new and steadily rising numbers of complex interventional procedures and new options for temporary circulatory support for critically ill patients, such as venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). Herein, we focus on the successful CICU management of these special patient cohorts, which must become an integral part of critical-care training.

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Lüsebrink, E., Kellnar, A., Scherer, C. et al. New challenges in cardiac intensive care units. Clin Res Cardiol 110, 1369–1379 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-021-01869-0

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