Louisiana Medical Center & Heart Hospital is an entire hospital specially designed, equipped and staffed to fight heart disease, especially in an emergency.
There's a reason the Heart Hospital doesn't have a chest pain center. Many heart attack victims don't have chest pain. Instead, they have other symptoms like unexplained nausea, dizziness, numbness in the left arm, or indigestion. This is critical to know, because in a heart-related emergency, time is heart muscle. And for every minute you ignore a heart attack, another piece of your heart goes away . . . forever. To help, we've created a 24-hour Heart Emergency Center, where we're ready around the clock to help you make the most of time by treating you at the first sign of a heart attack, instead of waiting for the last.
Emergency Center Features
- Available 24 hours, 7 days a week
- The first Northshore hospital to provide Medtronics LifenetTM a pre-hospital rapid EKG transmission system
- All physicians are Board Certified.
- Little to no wait to be seen, assessed and treated.
- Registered Nurses are specially trained in Cardiac Emergencies
- Physicians, Registered Nurses and Technicians are certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Advanced equipment and treatment protocols are used by the staff
- Home of CV Stat, an emergency referral and transport program providing care to outlying communities
- Heart Emergency Center is easily accessible from I-10, I-12, I-59
- In-house "State of the ART" CT Scan and MRI for rapid diagnosis and treatment
- Two dedicated trauma rooms
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