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Cardiac services buckle under COVID pressure as critical units are turned into ITUs
Cardiac Critical Care Unit housing post-cardiac surgery patients, is being turned into an ITU for COVID-19 treatment
14 March 2021, 1:12pm
by Nicole Meilak
The Cardiac Critical Unit (CCU) within Mater Dei Hospital has been taken over and turned into an ITU for COVID-19 patients.
The CCU is where post-cardiac bypass surgery patients, and others with post-cardiac interventions, are taken for care. 
Critical cardiac patients will instead be managed in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory.
A ministry spokesperson confirmed with MaltaToday that the Cardiac Medical Ward had also been closed off to new admissions on Wednesday night, after four patients tested positive for COVID-19. ....

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