Coronary Care Unit (CCU1):
Introduction
Intensive care includes caring
patients with acute and life-threatening illnesses by skilled personnel using
advanced facilities cardiac in intensive care unit, in which all caring works
related to patients with different types of cardiac problems, heart attack, are
provided there, such as cardiac stress test, echocardiography, angiography,
angioplasty, heart surgery, implanting temopral or permanent pacemakers,
placing ICD, fitting holter monitor and holter monitoring of blood pressure.
Patients with primary diagnosis of heart problems and those with acute myocardial infarction are treated
completely in this unit. ICC1 has 14 active beds; they are all fully equipped;
some facilities include electric hospital bed, central monitoring together with
all equipment needed for recording heart's rhythm and rate, measuring blood
pressure and the percent of oxygen saturation (SaO2); and also this unit
provides other facilities for patients such as oxygen therapy and suction.
A skilled nurse visits 3 or 4
patients in every nursing shift, and a specialist visits patients at least once
a day; in case of any problems, the specialist or the on-call doctor will be
informed and they will visit the patient again.
Installed Equipment in the Ward
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Two
Zoll electroshock devices
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Portable
suction device
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Two
complete sets of resuscitation trolley
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Echocardiography
device
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Portable
radiography equipment
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Adequate
number of syringe pump and infusion pump
All sub-units including
echocardiography, angiography, heart surgery room and heart ICU are very close
to CCU (time is not wasted while patients with serious illness are under
consideration).