Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)
Our CVICU team oversees the clinical care of children with critical cardiac conditions who are admitted for surgery, cardiac catheterization or illness.
Some of the more common conditions we treat include:
- Aortic Valvar Stenosis (AS)
- Arrhythmias
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
- Atrioventricular Canal Defect (AV Canal)
- Cardiomyopathy
- Chest Pain
- Coarctation of the Aorta (COA)
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Fainting (“Syncope”)
- Heart Failure
- Heart Murmurs
- Heart Palpitations
- Heterotaxy Syndrome where internal organs are in the wrong position
- High Blood Pressure (“Hypertension”)
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Myocarditis or infection in the heart
- Pulmonary Atresia
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Valve Stenosis
- Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR)
- Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
- Truncus Arteriosus (TA)
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)