Chest Pain Center
UM Health-West received the prestigious percutaneous cardiac intervention (PCI) designation from the American College of Cardiology. PCI, commonly known as angioplasty, is the process of clearing a blocked or narrowed coronary artery that could potentially lead to a heart attack.
Procedures & Interventions
- Chest X-ray
- Computed tomography (CT) of chest
- Computed tomography angiogram (CTA) of chest
- Laboratory testing hematology panels, chemistry panels including cardiac risk profile, Troponin I, CKMB, myoglobin, and BNP. Troponin is our cardiac biomarker of choice
- Electrocardiogram (EKG / ECG)
- Bedside echocardiogram
- Stress echocardiogram exercise or medication
- Myocardial perfusion scan exercise or medication
- Cardiac viability scan
- Graded Exercise Test (GXT) stress echo without images, unless patient is in pain
- Multiple-gated acquisition scan (MUGA scan)
- Heart catheterization left heart with or without right heart
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Noninvasive and invasive hemodynamic monitoring in all critical care areas
- Continuous portable telemetry monitoring