Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)
When you first learn that your child has a heart condition, you want information quickly. We're here to help you make important decisions about your child’s care.
Our CVICU team oversees the clinical care of critically ill children with 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 Murmurs
- Heart Palpitations
- High Blood Pressure (“Hypertension”)
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Myocarditis
- 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)