Post-Catheterization Intensive Care Unit

Post-Catheterization Intensive Care Unit

Care, monitoring, and health improvement of patients after cardiac angiography are performed in this department.

Introduction to the Department: The Post-Cath department has a large ward consisting of 8 beds and 4 three-bed rooms, as well as a room for a prayer room and changing the patients’ clothes. In addition, a room has been considered for treatment.

Direct Contact Phone: 32122269-025

Department Head: Dr. Gholamreza Jalili

Supervisor Nurse: Mrs. Faezeh Nayyar

Big Ward:
The Big Ward is the largest room in the department, consisting of 8 beds. It is used as a special room for specific patients, such as those who have undergone carotid or coronary angioplasty, patients with severe coronary artery stenosis, or those who have undergone CABG (open-heart surgery), MVR, AVR, PPM, EPS/AB, ICD (pacemaker insertion), and require special care. Each bed in this room is equipped with a monitor for patient monitoring, a blood pressure monitoring device, and a pulse oximeter.

Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Procedures:

• Patients are admitted to this department in two ways:
• Emergency admissions
• Direct admissions

Emergency Admission:
In this case, the patient visits the emergency department, and after being examined by the heart specialist on call, is hospitalized in the Post-Cath department. It is possible that if the CCU beds are occupied, patients who come to the emergency department with a heart problem will be placed in the Big Ward, and after a CCU bed becomes available, they will be transferred to that department.

Direct Admission:
In this case, the patient, with a bed order from the heart specialist, goes to the admission unit for angiography. After queuing and completing routine admission procedures and tests and receiving training on the necessary preparations before the procedure (such as shaving, dietary and medication instructions, etc.) one day before angiography, the patient is hospitalized in the Post-Cath department.

Patient Admission Process in the Post-Cath Department:

1. Patient admission
2. Establishing an open vein and connecting the serum
3. Control of routine tests
4. Taking EKG upon admission
5. Marking the distal pulse of the patient’s foot
6. Checking B/S
7. Transferring the patient to the cath lab