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Chest Pain

Our Approach

As Accredited Chest Pain Centers, our staff collaborates with emergency medical services to ensure patients receive immediate treatment to limit potential heart damage. We treat and stabilize heart attack patients immediately, when the chances of recovery are greatest.
When heart attacks strike, every second counts. Recognizing the warning signs and responding immediately may make the difference between life and death.

What Are Your Risk Factors?

Know Your Cardiovascular Risk Factor – evaluate your health

Cardiovascular Risk Factors include:

  • High blood pressure
  • Smoking
  • Diabetes/ high blood glucose
  • High cholesterol
  • Obesity
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Family history of cardiovascular disease

Early Heart Attack Care

Early Heart Attack Care™ (also known as EHAC) is an educational program that focuses on teaching the early signs and symptoms that someone may experience it they are having a heart attack.

Heart attack symptoms can be different in women and in the elderly.

Symptoms commonly seen in women:

  • Extreme feeling of fatigue
  • Back pain
  • Pain between the shoulder blades
  • Palpitations
  • Pain in the jaw
  • Shortness of Breath
  • Nausea
  • Indigestions
  • Loss of appetite
  • Weakness
  • Dizziness

Symptoms commonly seen in the elderly:

  • Generalized Weakness
  • Stroke like symptoms
  • Syncope
  • Change in mental status
  • Shortness of Breath
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations

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Treatments

ANGIOPLASTY

A minimally invasive procedure to widen narrowed vessels.

ATHERECTOMY

Peripheral intervention to open arteries blocked by plaque.

STENT INSERTION

Cardiac and peripheral.

THROMBOLYSIS

Medications used to dissolve blood clots.