Heart & Vascular Care
Healthcare for Everybody – From Head to Toe
Our cardiologists and cardiovascular experts are here to protect your heart health. Our team is prepared to meet your cardiac service needs through a variety of treatments, all managed by our well trained and experienced providers and medical staff. We provide patients the support and personalized care they need when it comes to making decisions about their current heart health and how to make healthy lifestyle changes to prevent future problems. From prevention to diagnosis to advanced treatments, we offer you access to superior quality healthcare.
Heart disease is the #1 killer of men and women worldwide. Many who have a heart or vascular condition are unaware of the problem until they experience a significant cardiac event like a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac arrest. Our staff is on call 24/7 to treat patients with these cardiac emergencies with our modern equipment and exceptional capabilities that can restore blood flow to the heart in order to minimize the damage a heart attack causes.
Why is heart health so important?
It’s important to monitor your health with routine physical examinations from a primary care provider, not only to detect these heart and vascular diseases, but to provide baseline information of your health before you develop such a condition. Medical management of cardiac and vascular diseases involve making important lifestyle changes such as eating a healthy diet, getting at least 30 minutes of exercise 5 days per week, quitting smoking, and avoiding drinking alcohol. Medication management, medical procedures, or surgery may be recommended depending on the type of heart disease you have and the extent of the damage it has caused to your body.
Heart health services we offer
Our heart and vascular services are designed to deliver exceptional diagnostic, therapeutic, and supportive care to those suffering from heart, circulatory, or breathing-related challenges. Our cardiovascular doctors are specialists in repairing the damage brought on by heart and circulatory system diseases that are usually first diagnosed by a primary care physician who then refers the patient to a cardiologist.
Our hospital offers the following cardiovascular services:
This branch of medicine involves heart and circulatory system disorders. A cardiologist is a doctor specializing in heart health and uniquely qualified to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias), heart attacks, coronary artery disease, and heart failure, to name a few.
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This subspecialty of cardiology uses catheter-based methods to diagnose and treat a number of heart conditions and diseases. Interventional cardiologists diagnose heart conditions using tools and imaging techniques that measure how the heart functions.
- Stress testing
- EKGs
- Holter monitoring
- TransEsophageal Echo (TEE)
- TransThoracic Echo (TTE)
- Treadmill stress echo
- Lexiscan nuclear medicine
- Stress echo
- Pacemakers
- Cardiac catheterizations
- Heart echo (Bubble Study)
These minimally invasive interventions are performed as outpatient treatments used to treat peripheral artery disease, a condition in which plaque builds up in the arteries leading to the intestines.
To make an appointment or find a cardiologist, call 504.592.6860. To reach the hospital, call 504.592.6577
