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Cardiac Intensive Care

  • Joined: November 27, 2023
  • Articles: 53

Physical Examination in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

In the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), the ubiquitous presence of advanced technology and highly sensitive laboratory assessments/testing has resulted in an overreliance on imaging and testing at the expense of the skills required to examine critically ill patients. Yet,…

Ethical Issues in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Ethical challenges abound in intensive care units (ICUs). Treatment in ICUs represents one of the costliest and most aggressive forms of Western medicine. ICU patients are the sickest and the most unstable, and they often cannot participate in health care…