Table 1.

Cardiac Intensive Care Cohort patient population.

PATIENT POPULATION	DESCRIPTION
Medicine, general surgery and neurology patients	Respiratory failure secondary to pneumonia, status post complex abdominal surgery, cerebrovascular accident status post intervention.
Preoperative cardiovascular, cardiac and vascular surgery patients	Unstable patients being evaluated for aortic dissection repair or cardiac surgery with or without devices. Heart transplant patient on inotropes or with intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) or Impella.
Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery patients	Coronary artery bypass, valve repair or replacement, cardiac tumor resection, pneumonectomy, lobectomy, esophagectomy, aortoesophageal repair.
Complicated and combined vascular surgery patients	Post left ventricular assist device, heart transplant patients, aortic dissection repair (endovascular or open), superior vena cava syndrome repair, heart and/or lung transplant or combined with liver or kidney transplant.
Congestive heart failure patients	Acute decompensated heart failure, including those with or without cardiac devices; any patient requiring invasive cardiac monitoring, status post percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients	Venovenous in cardiac intensive care unit and venoarterial in cardiovascular intensive care unit.
Cardiogenic shock patients	Patients in need for mechanical circulatory support such as IABP, Impella, durable ventricular assist device, or ECMO.