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The Interventional Cardiology program at Yale-New Haven Hospital is among the safest and most critically responsive in the country. The catheterization laboratories at YNHH performed over 3,100 diagnostic catheterizations in 2009 alone, and has among the lowest reported complication rates in the United States (see chart below).
Attentive patient care is the top priority. In 2009, patients with chest pain had a diagnostic EKG on average within six minutes of arrival and flow restored to the heart with angioplasty and stenting of the heart artery blockage within 74 minutes when necessary. Our program proudly ranks among the top five centers in the United States for "door-to-balloon" times by the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction.
Our busy program and interventionalists have long been engaged in leading edge innovations, including the development and first intracoronary stent placement in New England, early development and utilization of atherectomy devices, novel gene and cell based therapies to attempt to "grow" new heart tissue and blood vessels, and technique and technology development for the successful treatment of chronically blocked arteries. It is our belief and vision that patient care is best served in an environment where physicians teach physicians and advancement of science and global patient management strategies is prioritized.
As the only Connecticut hospital nationally accredited with a Cycle III "Chest Pain Center with PCI" (percutaneous coronary intervention) designation, patients can be assured that the care they receive meets or exceeds national quality of care measures in acute cardiac medicine. The accreditation is a distinction b the Society of Chest Pain Centers that signifies better care, prognoses, quality of life, faster treatment and a decreased length of stay in the hospital for patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Procedures
Our interventional cardiovascular team performs all interventional cardiac and vascular procedures, including:
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