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11/09/2014
Heart Attack Patients To Benefit From Cath Lab
Heart attack patients will now be treated at a catheterisation laboratory (Cath Lab), a new Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) service at Altnagelvin hospital.
Patients suffering from a heart attack will be taken immediately to a Cath Lab to have a blockage in the blood vessels around their heart removed using a balloon or stent.
Health Minister Edwin Poots said: "I am very glad to have had the opportunity to see at first hand the service being delivered in this state-of-the-art new facility. Cardiac Catheterisation Labs can be of enormous benefit to patients having a heart attack, allowing them to bypass the Emergency Department and go straight to the lab for treatment.
"This new service was introduced in June 2014 and is already having an impact. The next stage is for the service to move to 24/7 service provision."
Approximately 40% of hospitalised heart attack patients have a STEMI. This type of heart attack happens when the blood supply to one of the heart's arteries is cut off completely as a result a blood clot.
(CD/JP)
Patients suffering from a heart attack will be taken immediately to a Cath Lab to have a blockage in the blood vessels around their heart removed using a balloon or stent.
Health Minister Edwin Poots said: "I am very glad to have had the opportunity to see at first hand the service being delivered in this state-of-the-art new facility. Cardiac Catheterisation Labs can be of enormous benefit to patients having a heart attack, allowing them to bypass the Emergency Department and go straight to the lab for treatment.
"This new service was introduced in June 2014 and is already having an impact. The next stage is for the service to move to 24/7 service provision."
Approximately 40% of hospitalised heart attack patients have a STEMI. This type of heart attack happens when the blood supply to one of the heart's arteries is cut off completely as a result a blood clot.
(CD/JP)
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