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Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective.

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Katz, JN; Turer, AT; Becker, RC
Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
March 2007

With an aging U.S. population and a declining physician supply, the care of critically ill patients will soon be reaching a level of crisis. At the same time, the evidence continues to mount in support of intensivist staffing to improve both patient outcomes and resource utilization in intensive care units (ICUs). Whereas the vast majority of medical and surgical ICUs are staffed by physicians trained in critical care medicine, that is not commonly the case in coronary care units (CCUs) in this country. Despite that, the breadth and diversity of comorbidities in patients that occupy our CCU beds is continuously growing. No longer is the CCU merely an observation unit for peri-infarction complications, but rather it has truly become an ICU for patients with cardiovascular disease. With this in mind, there becomes a growing need for intensivist-trained cardiologists and a push for the development of critical care training pathways in our cardiovascular fellowship programs.

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Published In

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

DOI

EISSN

1558-3597

ISSN

0735-1097

Publication Date

March 2007

Volume

49

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1279 / 1282

Related Subject Headings

  • Workforce
  • Physicians
  • Humans
  • Critical Care
  • Coronary Care Units
  • Cardiovascular System & Hematology
  • Cardiology
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
  • 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology
 

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Katz, J. N., Turer, A. T., & Becker, R. C. (2007). Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 49(12), 1279–1282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2006.11.036
Katz, Jason N., Aslan T. Turer, and Richard C. Becker. “Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective.Journal of the American College of Cardiology 49, no. 12 (March 2007): 1279–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2006.11.036.
Katz JN, Turer AT, Becker RC. Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2007 Mar;49(12):1279–82.
Katz, Jason N., et al. “Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective.Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 49, no. 12, Mar. 2007, pp. 1279–82. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2006.11.036.
Katz JN, Turer AT, Becker RC. Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2007 Mar;49(12):1279–1282.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

DOI

EISSN

1558-3597

ISSN

0735-1097

Publication Date

March 2007

Volume

49

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1279 / 1282

Related Subject Headings

  • Workforce
  • Physicians
  • Humans
  • Critical Care
  • Coronary Care Units
  • Cardiovascular System & Hematology
  • Cardiology
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
  • 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology