Chest Pain
Our Approach
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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Conditions
Treatments
ANGIOPLASTY
A minimally invasive procedure to widen narrowed vessels.
ATHERECTOMY
Peripheral intervention to open arteries blocked by plaque.
CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
The diagnosis and treatment of heart and blood vessel diseases through catheterization.
STENT INSERTION
Cardiac and peripheral.
THROMBOLYSIS
Medications used to dissolve blood clots.