Cardiac Critical Care Unit
UCSF's Cardiac Critical Care Unit provides comprehensive hospital care to critically ill adults being treated primarily for heart conditions, including heart attacks and heart failure. Other patients with life-threatening conditions may also receive care in the unit.
Specialty care may include cardiac medicine, cardiothoracic surgery, heart and lung transplants, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery.
Members of our multidisciplinary team work together to meet the physical, mental and psychosocial needs of each patient and family. Along with doctors and nurses, the team comprises staff from respiratory therapy, physical therapy, social work, pharmacy, nutrition and pastoral care. In keeping with our patient- and family-focused care, we strive to honor the personal and cultural values of patients and their families in the treatment plan.
Visitors may not spend the night but are allowed to visit at any time of the day or night except between 7 and 8 a.m. and 7 and 8 p.m.
Our locations
Our team
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Christopher Barnett
MD
Cardiac Critical Care, Cardiology -
Samuel Brusca
MD
Cardiology, Cardiac Critical Care -
Richard Cheng
MD
Heart Failure, Cardiology -
Connor O'Brien
MD
Cardiology, Cardiac Critical Care -
Kevin Thornton
MD
Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine -
Maureen Arriola
NP
Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology
Clinical trials
The EMPOWER Trial - The Carillon Mitral Contour System® in Treating Heart Failure With at Least...
Freedom from a composite of major adverse events (defined as Device Embolization, Vessel Erosion, Cardiac Perforation, and occurrence of cardiac surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention) in the Intervention group is greater t...
Recruiting
ALT-FLOW II Trial of the Edwards APTURE Transcatheter Shunt System
Shunt implant safety: proportion of patients in the APTURE shunt group without any serious device or procedure-related (CEC adjudicated) complications (i.e., Major Adverse Cardiovascular, Cerebrovascular, and Renal Events [MACCRE]...
Recruiting
Awards & recognition
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Among the top hospitals in the nation
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One of the nation's best for heart & vascular surgery
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Rated high-performing hospital for heart attack
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Rated high-performing hospital for heart failure
