The therapeutic results in acute myocardial infarction for two periods hnmediately preceding (pre-CCU) and after (post-CCU) establishment of a coronary care unit were compared. One hundred cases of proved myocardial infarction were selected at random from each time period. The coronary care unit reduced gross mortality from 33 percent (pre-CCU) to 16 percent (post-CCU). The reduction in mortali...

drug-drug interactions (ddis) can lead to increased toxicity or reduction in therapeutic efficacy. this study was designed to assess the incidence of potential drug interactions (pdi) and rank their clinical value in post coronary care unit (post-ccu) of a teaching hospital in tehran, iran.in this prospective study, three pharmacists with supervision of a clinical pharmacist actively gathered n...

OBJECTIVE To identify the effect on door to needle (DTN) time of moving the site of thrombolysis delivery from the coronary care unit (CCU) to the emergency department (ED). To ascertain if moving the site of thrombolysis enables appropriate use of thrombolysis. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING CCU and ED of a 450 bed Scottish district general hospital without on-site primary angiop...

From modest beginnings in 1962 in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Toronto, the coronary care unit has become at once an institution and a revolution in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. The CCU was synthesized from now well known innovations in resuscitation, monitoring, and in the electrical treatment of arrhythmias. Its early history was written by small units of three to four beds...

Heavy industries such as cement, iron and steel, oil refining, petrochemicals are responsible for about 22% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. There exist several pathways CO2 mitigation. Capturing, storage, utilization (CCS CCU) provide an operational solution significant emission High purity streams the most interesting points CCS CCU. Pure suitable compression, transport, storage. Cap...

BACKGROUND Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) results in a number of physiological changes with effects on the cardiovascular system, oxygen consumption and coagulation. The Critical Care interventions required by this cohort of patients have not yet been quantified. METHODS This retrospective audit examines the experience of a Specialist Tertiary Cent...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To determine the proportion of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) not admitted to a coronary care unit (CCU), the variables associated with admission into a CCU, and whether admission to a CCU, and the availability of coronary angiography in the same hospital, were associated with 28-day case fatality. PATIENTS AND METHOD Population-based registry of MI in pa...

The aim was to compare time to thrombolysis for patients treated via three treatment pathways: thrombolysis in the emergency department (ED), thrombolysis following direct admission by ambulance officers to coronary care (CCU) and thrombolysis after transfer from ED to CCU. We used a retrospective study of time to thrombolysis for all patients receiving thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarct...