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Programs & Services


Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit is dedicated to the provision of critical care to neonates, infants, and children with an underlying cardiac condition that may require congenital cardiac surgery and/or medical, surgical, and mechanical support of cardiac failure.

The LaBonte Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) at the Stollery Children's Hospital provides state of the art cardiac care to critically ill infants and children up to 18 years of age. It is the referal center for the Western Canadian Children's Heart network (WCCHN) and is the pediatric extracorporeal life support (ECLS), ventricular assist device (VAD), and thoracic transplant referral site for most of Western Canada, and includes specialty programs such as pediatric pulmonary hypertension. The PCICU has 15 funded beds and is located on the University of Alberta Hospital campus in the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute unit 6A7.

The PCICU supports multidisciplinary collaborative care that is patient and family focused. Research and quality functions are ongoing and integrated into the PCICU activity. A number of training programs, including medicine, nursing, and allied health disciplines, will use the PCICU for clinical practicums.

Contact Details

Stollery Children's Hospital

Location Info
Unit 6A7
Address
8440 112 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2B7
Telephone
780-407-7525
Getting There

Parking and Public transportation available

Hours of Operation
Available
24 hour service
Access
Service Providers May Include
cardiologists, child life specialists, dietitians, intensive care doctors (intensivists), occupational therapists (OTs), pharmacists, physical therapists (PTs), registered nurses (RNs), registered respiratory therapists (RRTs), social workers
Eligibility

Ages 18 years and younger.

Referral Needed

Doctors referral

Service Languages
Interpreter/Translation services
Partners

Partners/affiliations

Western Canadian Children's Heart Network (WCCHN)

Also Known As
Acronym
PCICU
Other
CICU, Critical Care