Hospital Triage of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Is admission to the Coronary Care Unit still necessary?

Concurrent with the development of SDUs, the cardiac ICU (CICU) in many hospitals has evolved toward providing comprehensive critical care to patients with cardiac diseases and multi-system organ dysfunction, narrowing CICU bed allocation to those patients who require advanced critical care therapies.18 For many hospitals, patients with NSTEMI are routinely triaged to an SDU rather than a CICU. [...]in some hospitals, current practice has evolved such that uncomplicated patients with STEMI are similarly cared for in an SDU.