Rotations
CVICU
Rotations · CVICU · Progress
COCATS Level I
A minimum of 2 months — 8 weeks — of critical care within the first 24 months of fellowship. Level III requires additional dedicated critical care training.
ACC COCATS 4 Task Force 13, Critical Care Cardiology
Procedures
- Arterial lines
- Central venous lines
- Pulmonary artery catheters
- Temporary transvenous pacemakers
- IABP exposure
- Pericardiocentesis exposure
Whether procedure counts come from MedHub or from verified manual entry, and which locally required logs exist beyond this list. No total is shown until one of those is connected.
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Clinical exposure
- Shock phenotypes
- ACS and mechanical complications
- Severe heart failure
- Pulmonary hypertension and RV failure
- Valvular emergencies
- Pulmonary embolism
- Aortic disease
- Arrhythmias
- Post-arrest care
- Mechanical circulatory support
Medical knowledge
- Shock phenotypes and hemodynamics
- Invasive and noninvasive monitoring
- Vasoactive and inotropic pharmacology
- Antithrombotics and fibrinolytics
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Pulmonary hypertension therapies
- Unstable arrhythmias
- PE, dissection, tamponade and valve emergencies
- Respiratory failure and ventilation
- Acute kidney injury
- Mechanical MI complications
- MCS indications
- Post-arrest care
UT Cardiac Critical Care curriculum, revision 6/25/2021
Patient care & procedures
- Manage acute MI and its complications
- Integrate clinical, ECG, telemetry, imaging and hemodynamic data
- Arterial line, central line, PAC and TVP skills
- Recognize when renal replacement is needed
- Post-arrest temperature control
- Post-surgical and transcatheter hemodynamic instability
- Unstable arrhythmias
- Pressor and inotrope use
- Incorporating mechanical circulatory support
- Tamponade and pericardiocentesis
- Acute bleeding
- Noninvasive and mechanical ventilation
UT Cardiac Critical Care curriculum, revision 6/25/2021
Professional & systems
- Interdisciplinary ICU teamwork
- Transitions of care
- Patient preferences and end-of-life issues
- Practising within your technical scope
- Respectful team communication
- Point-of-care guideline use
- Risk, benefit and cost
UT Cardiac Critical Care curriculum, revision 6/25/2021
Evaluation
- Faculty evaluations
- Direct observation
- 360 / multisource feedback
- Conference participation
- Self-evaluation
- CCC review
- Simulation, where it is used
The evaluation platform link, and which form CVICU uses.
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Teaching
ICU and resident teaching, and case presentations.
Whether the program tracks teaching contributions for this rotation at all.
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Goals & reflection
Personal rotation goals, the mid-rotation check-in, and the end-of-rotation reflection. Private.
Nothing recorded. There is no way to write to this yet — the module is here because the program asked for it, and the entry path is the next piece of work.
No procedure counts are shown. UTKardio holds no procedure log and will not display a total until one is connected — a number invented here is one a fellow would measure themselves against.
Still needed from the program
Listed rather than guessed. These are the facts this page cannot answer.
- Procedure logWhether procedure counts come from MedHub or from verified manual entry.
Last updated 2026-09-19 · Program, CVICU Work Guide specification, 2026-09-19
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