Cardiac Care

You’ll conduct histories and physical exams, perform evaluations, write progress notes and interpret diagnostic studies for CCU patients at Gates Vascular Institute, a world-class clinical facility.

As a fully integrated member of the CCU team, you’ll be responsible for directing patient care. You’ll work with an attending cardiologist, a cardiology fellow and residents from several other disciplines.

Your rotation includes a daily didactic lecture covering a spectrum of cardiology topics.

You’ll learn how to:

• use advanced cardiorespiratory and hemodynamic monitoring techniques
• conduct electrophysiologic tests
• place Swan-Ganz catheters and transvenous pacemakers
  
• use automatic cardioverter defibrillators

Typical diagnoses in the CCU include:

• unstable angina
• acute myocardial infarction
• pulmonary edema
• renal failure
• GI bleeding
• sepsis
• respiratory failure

3-5 patients daily

PGY-1

4 weeks