Sentences with phrase «chest pain center»

He works in human medicine at Western North Carolina's regional trauma and chest pain center, Mission Memorial Hospital.

Reno - based Renown Health's Renown South Meadows Medical Center includes a chest pain center, institute for heart and vascular health, a critical care unit and the Monaco Ridge Assisted Living facility.

It also has the only lung transplant program in the state, one of the country's most comprehensive robotic surgery services out of six nationally certified chest pain centers, and accredited certified comprehensive and primary stroke centers, including two kidney transplant centers which are in the top 10 of 240 programs in the country.

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Pressure, squeezing or pain in the center of your chest that lasts more than a few minutes.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges.

«This study has broader implications for the health care system, as most hospitals continue to redundantly test people for chest pain and other symptoms,» says report author Jeffrey C. Trost, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and co-director of interventional cardiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

The PROMISE trial was conducted at 193 centers across North America to determine whether a care strategy starting with coronary CTA, which reveals the structure of blood vessels supplying the heart, or a strategy starting with functional testing, measures such as stress testing or echocardiography that reflect how well the heart muscle is working, provided better guidance for clinical decisions regarding patients with chest pain.

The study included 22,917 patients from 19 medical centers in Ontario, Canada, who received a diagnosis of stable coronary artery disease following coronary angiogram for chest pain (chronic stable angina) between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2013.

If the area over the chest is affected, someone might mistake this new pain for a heart attack or other cardiac issue, says Salman Arain, MD, an interventional cardiologist with McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute - Texas Medical Center.

The pain or feeling tends to be focused either in the center of the chest or just below the center of the rib cage, but it can spread to the arms, abdomen, neck, lower jaw or neck.

Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest.

Jeffrey Kace went to the St. Elizabeth's Medical Center emergency room complaining of a cough, fever, and chest pains on Aug. 14, 2006.