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NewsMore hospitals meet faster emergency heart care standards
Hospitals across the country are treating more heart attack patients within the recommended time frame than five years ago, according to study published in Circulation, an American Heart Association Read more...
Heart-attack treatment times have improved dramatically
A little change can go a long way. That's the concept behind the Door-to-Balloon (D2B) Alliance, which helped hospitals around the nation significantly speed up treatments to patients admitted to the Read more...
| Press ReleasesAngioplasties Performed at Centers Without On-Site Surgery Services Are Safe, Study FindsROCHESTER, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Contrary to current guidelines, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that elective or primary (in patients who have had heart attacks) angioplasties performed at Read more >> Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital First in Nation to Implant Heart Pump in Study to Assess Device’s PHOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Interventional cardiologists affiliated with Texas Heart® Institute (THI) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (St. Luke’s) recently implanted the first two patients in the Read more >> Texas Heart® Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Cardiologists First in Houston to Use Breakthrough Imaging tHOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Texas Heart® Institute (THI) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) cardiologists recently became the first in Houston to implement a new imaging tool that shows Read more >> At Stanford Hospital, Coronary Procedure No Longer Requires Overnight StaySTANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- You can have a percutaneous coronary intervention through your femoral artery or radial artery. Put another way, you can have a catheter stuck into your groin or Read more >> |
