Boston Children's Hospital has assumed a leadership role in the development of pediatric cardiac intensive care as a specialized service, and we’ve continued to expand our cardiac intensive care team over the years.
Training the best
The success of our program has served as a model for the development of other programs treating children with heart disease across the United States and the world.
We’ve maintained a strong commitment to train the next generation of physicians and nursing staff, and as a result, the medical directors of many of the cardiac intensive care units at pediatric hospitals worldwide are graduates of our teaching and training programs.
参观我们的CICU
Staff of experts
Our cardiac intensive care unit plays a pivotal role within the Cardiovascular Program at Boston Children’s. A team of experienced physicians and nurses are dedicated to the collaborative management of patients in the CICU.
患者的安全性和质量是我们CICU的优先事项，并以严格的方式对我们的所有实践和程序进行了定期审查。我们的医生在CICU全职工作，并在专业领域进行培训，包括小儿重症监护，心脏病学和心脏麻醉。他们的知识以及复杂的监视和支持设备，使他们能够快速识别问题并有效地做出回应。
Our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit is actively involved in training of cardiologists, intensivists, and anesthesiologists in pediatric cardiac critical care as part of the ACGME-approved Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care programs. The staff in the CICU are recognized as experts in the field of pediatric cardiac critical care: They are involved in a many clinical research studies, and have authored many original articles, chapters, and textbooks.
The Boston Children’s advantage
- Our 29-bed facility is one of the largest and most sophisticated intensive care units in the country solely dedicated to cardiac care of children.
- We offer experience and expertise gained from treating more than 1,300 patients admitted to our unit each year.
- We routinely care for some of the most complex cases in the world.
- We care for children with non-surgical conditions such as heart failure and myocarditis, and children with heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
- We also treat older patients and adults who have developed complications or need further procedures as a result of long-standing or previously treated congenital heart disease.
Our innovative approach
过去二十年来，先天性心脏病儿童治疗的最重大变化可能是强调早期手术干预以修复新生儿和婴儿的缺陷。
The underlying premise is that early intervention to correct cyanosis, volume, or pressure loads on the myocardium and treat pulmonary hypertension will enhance the heat or the child's subsequent growth and development. One of the reasons this approach has been so successful is the infrastructure in place at Boston Children's Hospital to manage our patients.
This includes:
- improvements in diagnosis procedures and imaging of the heart
- 改进的监视技术以密切滴定管理的变化
- improvements in surgical techniques and cardiopulmonary bypass
- improvements in the management available in the CICU