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Emergent Cardiac Care
The cardiac care team at Crestwood Medical Center averages a door to balloon time of less than 70 minutes. The national average for door-to-balloon time (from the time a patient arrives at the emergency room until the time blood flow is restored) is 107 minutes. With heart attacks, time means everything. The sooner the blocked artery causing the heart attack is opened, the quicker the blood flow is restored to the heart muscle, the better the outcome for the patient. Crestwood Medical Center's cardiology program provides emergency coronary artery intervention (angioplasty and stents) for acute heart attacks.
At Crestwood Medical Center, we also offer a cardiac care and endovascular program that not only includes elective and emergent cardiac and endovascular treatment, but also includes:
- Medical intensive care unit
- Progressive cardiac care inpatient unit
- Cardiac care outpatient unit
If you experience symptoms of a heart attack, call 911 immediately and ask to be taken to the nearest hospital. Paramedics can begin treatment immediately.
During a heart attack, every minute matters. So, know the warning signs. Click here to learn more about the early symptoms of a heart attack through the Early Heart Attack Care (EHAC) Initiative.
Emergent Endovascular Intervention
Crestwood Medical Center offers technology to find and treat vascular problems throughout the body.
Aortic aneurysm repair (endograft/surgical) is a technique used to repair an aortic aneurysm. An endograft is a fabric covered metallic stent.
Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) intervention is a technique used to treat a blood clot that may occur within the deep veins of the body.
Arterial and venous angioplasty and stenting are minimally invasive procedures performed to improve blood flow in the body's arteries. In the angioplasty procedure, imaging techniques are used to guide a balloon-tipped catheter into an artery and advance it to where the vessel is narrow or blocked. In vascular stenting, which is often performed with angioplasty, a small wire mesh tube called a stent is permanently placed in the newly opened artery to help it remain open.