Cardiology Resident Responsibilities
There are four cardiology teams designated CCU Teams 1, 2, 3 and 4
-The teams are comprised of an attending, fellow, resident and intern
-Each one resident/one intern unit takes long call q 4 nights and short call q 4 days
-Each one resident/one intern unit has a team cap of 14 patients
-Each intern has a cap of 10 patients
-Each resident and intern will have an average of 1 day off in 7 during the rotation
-See the team to team transfer policy for transferring patients to and from the cardiology service
LONG CALL:
1) Short call and long call teams combined can admit up to 13 new patients per 24 hours. If the short call tam only admits 1 new patient, then long call can take 12 new patients, etc.
2) The intern will carry no more than 5 new patient admissions per 24 hour period
3) The long call resident will be contacted by the ED for admissions. The long call resident is responsible for assigning appropriate patients to the heart failure service and the short call team. If the heart failure resident has already left the hospital, and the long call team floats a CHF patient, then that patient counts towards the 13 on call admissions
4) The long call resident will be in house for rounds and codes at 7:00 AM, and will sign out before 1:00 PM on the post call day
5) The long call intern will be in house at 12:00 PM, except on weekends, and will sign out before 6:00 PM on the post call day
SHORT CALL
1) Each one resident/one intern unit will admit 3 new patients per short call day
2) The time cap for short call admissions is 5:00PM
3) The short call team should cap before the long call team accepts admissions
4) CCU-level patients should be admitted to the long call team. A CCU-level patient may be admitted to short call at the discretion of the short call resident, however.
5) There is no short call on weekends and holidays
Rev. 6/12/06 NL
6/15/07 WW
6/6/08 CJD
6/25/09 JCH