This clinical assignment is two to three blocks in the first year, one of them is to be done at Rush University Medical Center. Critical care experience focuses on acute coronary syndrome management with large exposure to ST elevation as well as NST elevation MIs, arrhythmia management, hemodynamics, and cardiogenic shock.  This covers both pharmacologic and mechanical therapy including temporary transvenous pacemaker placement, Swan-Ganz catheter insertions, DC cardioversion, and resuscitation. Fellows are responsible for all critical care cardiology consults and management. They will be running the unit as a primary team with the internal medicine residents assigned to the rotation.

A resident and a fellow are performing Elective Cardioversion for AFIB