CCU

During this, the basis of your training in clinical cardiology, you’ll care for a diverse patient population with different acuity levels and a broad range of medically complex conditions.

Working with our faculty and a dedicated internal medicine resident team, you’ll manage patients admitted to Buffalo General Medical Center’s CCU.

Common procedures you’ll perform include:

  • inserting Swan-Ganz catheters and transvenous pacemakers
  • managing and removing intra-aortic balloon pumps/Impella devices
  • cardioversion

You may occasionally perform pericardiocentesis as well.

You’ll care for patients with a wide spectrum of cardiac conditions, including:

  • acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction
  • cardiogenic shock
  • cardiac arrest
  • congestive heart failure
  • arrhythmias (SVT, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, AV block)
  • acute and chronic valvular heart disease (aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis)
  • pericardial disease
  • aortic disease (aortic dissection)
  • congenital heart disease
  • hypertensive emergency

During your CCU rotation, you’ll be on call from home every other night.

Except for the first Sunday and last Saturday of the month, you’ll be off weekends.

Caseload

  • 15-20 patients daily

Length and Years of Rotation

  • 1 four-week module per year

Clinical Site

Patient Population

  • patients from adolescence through adulthood