Editor’s Message

Sustainability and the CICU – Can these two exist in harmony?

 I hope everyone had a great summer. Fall is here and our first annual meeting on the west coast is just around the corner. While everyone eagerly awaits our time together, we hope you will enjoy our latest PCICS newsletter. This edition is dedicated to sustainability in every sense of the word as it relates to the cardiac ICU.

It’s hard to imagine discussing “sustainability” and time in the CICU within the same phrase, but our writers have done just that, and they give us all so much to consider as we move through our clinical lives. Saidie and Ndidi discuss their experience with coaching programs and how they can (and should) be incorporated as preventative and proactive measures to augment our career paths. Jamie discusses how to invest in our growing APP teams to foster long term career satisfaction. My colleagues at Stanford, Ritu, and David x 2, describe how they have led important changes to improve longevity and decrease burnout for our faculty group. And equally important, Michele is using her graduate school education to teach us about how our ICUs are affecting the planet, and what we can do about it.

As always, this edition contains several exciting PCICS committees and SIGs updates as well as an executive message describing our efforts to expand globally from our PCICS President, Lindsey Justice.  I hope every one of you and your teams can find some thought provoking and change inducing items to improve your work environment in this newsletter.  Looking forward to seeing many of you in San Diego in just one short month!

Meghna D. Patel, MD