NSMC Heart Center Cardiac Catheterization & Interventional Laboratory is the only facility on the North Shore to provide primary angioplasty--a life-saving procedure that allows the fastest method of opening blocked arteries in patients suffering from a heart attack.
The time from when a heart attack patient arrives at the NSMC emergency room to the moment the artery is opened by angioplasty (also known as door-to-balloon time) is 75 to 80 minutes, well below the 200 minute national average.
We provide primary angioplasty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.
Our spectrum of angioplasty procedures includes:
- Right & left heart catheterization
- Coronary angiography
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (balloon angioplasty/stent)
- Intravascular Ultrasound
- Primary angioplasty
- Pericardiocentesis
- Studies of patients with pulmonary artery hypertension
- Carotid, aortic, renal, iliac, and subclavian angioplasty and stenting
Following angioplasty, most patients enter the NSMC Cardiac Rehabilitation program, a multi-tiered approach to rehabilitating the heart and overall improving a patient's fitness.
INFO FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
