Prevalence of Non-Cardiac Multimorbidity in Patients Admitted to Two Cardiac Intensive Care Units and Their Association with Mortality

Current cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) practice has seen a rise in patient complexity, including an increase in non-cardiac organ failure, critical care therapies, and comorbidities. We sought to describe the changing epidemiology of non-cardiac multimorbidity in the CICU population.

Source: The American Journal of Medicine - October 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: P. Elliott Miller, Alexander Thomas, Thomas J. Breen, Fouad Chouairi, Yukiko Kunitomo, Faisal Aslam, Abdulla A. Damluji, Nandan S. Anavekar, Joseph G. Murphy, Sean van Diepen, Gregory W. Barsness, Joseph Brennan, Jacob Jentzer Tags: Clinical Research Study Source Type: research