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| The President of the Community visits this Unit, which already operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week thanks to an investment of one million euros and the hiring of 13 new professionals | The president of the Community, Fernando L pez Miras, highlighted today that "in just one month, the extension of the schedule to 24 hours of the Cartagena Hemodynamic Unit has prevented 23 patients from having to travel to the Hospital de la Arrixaca, thus facilitating their treatment and helping to improve the public health system in the Region of Murcia ".
Since last November 16, when the 24-hour service began in the Hemodynamic Unit of Cartagena, the 'Infarction Code' has been activated in the Santa Luc a Hospital on 41 occasions to care for the population from the Cartagena Health Area diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome.
Of these 41 care that have been provided in the hospital, 32 have required coronary intervention through primary angioplasties and, of these, 23 have been performed in the afternoon and evening from Monday to Thursday and on weekends.
During a visit to the Hemodynamics Unit of the Cardiology Service of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Cartagena, the regional president valued "the great work that the professionals of this service are doing" and remarked, in reference to to the launch of this Unit, that "the regional government fulfills its commitments." "The promotion of the regional government to the Cardiology Service of this Hospital Complex will allow to obtain the maximum development of the capacities of the two Hemodynamic rooms that it has," explained López Miras.
The extension of the Unit's hours has meant an investment of one million euros and the hiring of 13 professionals, in addition to another 12 that the Unit already had.
"All this will translate into better patient care," remarked the regional president.
The healthcare activity of the Cartagena Hemodynamics Unit is close to 1,200 diagnostic procedures and 645 therapeutic procedures per year and its portfolio of services includes coronary angiography, left ventriculography, catheterization, endiomyoid biopsy rdica, among others.
Likewise, it includes intracoronary procedures, pharmacological tests of coronary hyperreactivity; interventional procedures such as PTCA, Stents, rotational and thromboctomies, pericardiocentesis, and percutaneous ventricular assist devices.
Similarly, the Arrhythmia Unit of Cartagena has carried out some 150 electrophysiological studies so far this year, more than 120 cardiac ablations and has implanted more than 200 devices between pacemakers and defibrillators, among others.
Coronary treatments for ischemic heart disease Ischemic heart disease is one of the most important forms of illness as a cause of mortality and morbidity in developed countries and its usual clinical expression is through the appearance of angina of chest and acute myocardial infarction.
It is, to some extent, a reflection of the growing longevity of the population.
The treatment of this disease ranges from the prevention of the 'classic' cardiovascular risk factors (tobacco, blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol), to the treatment with antiaggregants and statins or the opening of coronary obstructions.
Opening a coronary artery can be a quick and technically simple procedure in many cases with a high percentage of success or, in some others, very complex, lengthy and with a moderate failure rate.
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Source: CARM
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