Comprised of a staff Cardiologist, a Cardiology fellow, and four senior medical residents, the CVICU team manages up to 16 patients requiring ICU admission for cardiac causes. Common problems seen on this service include severe decompensated heart failure/cardiogenic shock, STEMI, aortic dissection, and acute severe valvular dysfunction.

Residents will become comfortable with management of invasive hemodynamic monitoring including PA catheters, cardiac assist devices including Intra-aortic balloon pump and Impella, as well as cardiac ultrasound/echocardiography.

Each resident takes call every 4th night with one day off per week. At night, the on-call resident covers the Cardiology teaching service in addition to the CVICU.