The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) providers care for babies, children, teens, and young adults who are critically ill with congenital and acquired heart disease, both medical and surgical.
Clinical Programs
The CICU has 700 annual admissions, including 400 cardiopulmonary bypass cases per year. Seattle Children’s is the major regional pediatric heart transplant center and performs 15-20 heart transplants per year.
Research Programs
- The CICU team participates in PC4, the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium. This is a national group of leaders who care for children with serious heart conditions. PC4 focuses on advancing care by sharing and analyzing data to find what works best.
- Drs. Titus Chan and Yuen Lie Tjoeng do research on healthcare disparities. This important work helps ensure every child gets the care they need with the best possible outcome.
Education and Training Programs
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The PCCM fellowship program provides comprehensive training in clinical pediatric critical care medicine and the principles of quality improvement, scientific investigation, bioethics, and ICU administration. PCCM fellows rotate in the PICU and CICU of Children’s as well as a pediatric trauma ICU at Harborview Medical Center.
The Cardiac Intensive Care Fellowship
This senior clinical fellowship in cardiac intensive care is a 12-month training program in the care of critically ill patients with congenital and acquired heart disease at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The curriculum is individualized based on the fellow’s prior background and future career goals. Fellows are given graduated responsibility through the year of training, with the expectation that by the end of the year they will be prepared for a faculty position in a high volume academic cardiac intensive care unit. Individuals who have completed 3 years of pediatric critical care medicine are eligible for this one-year fellowship.
