Heart Care
Heart care at Davis Regional Medical Center focuses on the functions and disorders of the heart and its connected circulatory system. According to the American Heart Association, 84 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, affecting blood flow throughout the body.
Taking good care of your heart can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease that leads to a heart attack, stroke or other serious complications. Our cardiac care teams provide heart care services from helping you create a heart-healthy lifestyle to performing lifesaving procedures in emergency situations.
Key Risk Factors for Heart Disease
When it comes to matters of the heart, you could be at risk for a heart disease and not even know it. Key risk factors for heart disease include:
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Being overweight
- Smoking
- High cholesterol
- Physical inactivity
- A family history of early heart disease
Our cardiac care team provides heart care from diagnosis and emergency intervention to treatments, preventive education and rehabilitation.
At Davis Regional Medical Center, we are an American College of Cardiology Chest Pain Accredited Center with an experienced team of medical professionals. Our team provides technologically advanced heart care delivered by knowledgeable, experienced cardiac professionals, including board-certified cardiologists. We offer same day cardiac catheterization procedures and intervention/treatments such as:
- Stent placement (holds an artery open and keeps it from closing again)
- Angioplasty (surgical repair or unblocking of a blood vessel, especially a coronary artery)
- PCI coronary (widening of the coronary artery)
- Implantable cardiac monitors
- TEE tests (takes a detailed picture of the heart and its major blood vessels to detect heart valve disease, heart tumors, blood clots inside the heart or an aneurysm)
- Peripheral vascular procedures for kidneys and legs
- Echocardiogram (uses sound waves to produce images of the heart for doctors to see if heart is beating and pumping blood)
- Radial PCI (catheter is placed in wrist rather than femoral artery which is easier for patients, offers minimal pain and reduced risk of bleeding and patients can go home the next day with minor work/life restrictions)