Cardiac Care Unit

The cardiac care unit (CCU) at Loyola's Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine has eight private rooms. Each room is equipped with state-of-the-art heart monitoring, giving our specialized cardiac nurses the ability to monitor each patient from any patient room or our central monitoring station. We also have a large waiting room for families and friends.

Patient Population
Typical patients who stay in the CCU include those who have had the following procedures: 

• CABG

• Angioplasty

• Angiogram

• Rule-out myocardium infarction

• Myocardium infarction

• Septal ablation for hypertropic cardiomyopathy

• Advance/decompensated heart failure

• Unstable angina

• Beta/gamma radiation procedure

• Pacemaker implantation

• AICDs

• Cardioversion