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.
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.
He works in human medicine at Western North Carolina's regional trauma and
chest pain center, Mission Memorial Hospital.
Not exact matches
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.