The Chest Pain Center of Northern Nevada Medical Center provides a highly-skilled team of cardiology professionals. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients receive sophisticated testing and treatment and fast triage for chest pain, dysrhythmias and other heart emergencies. Services include noninvasive testing, interventional cardiology and physician admission to a private room in the Chest Pain Center.

A Higher Level of Expertise
Northern Nevada Medical Center is accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers. According to the Society of Chest Pain Centers, hospitals that receive accreditation have achieved a higher level of expertise in dealing with patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack. Accredited hospitals emphasize the importance of standardized diagnostic and treatment programs that provide more efficient and effective evaluation as well as more appropriate and rapid treatment of patients with chest pain and other heart attack symptoms.

As an accredited Chest Pain Center, NNMC is recognized for its ability to assess, diagnose, and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack. SCPC accreditation confirms that effective processes are in place that meet strict criteria aimed at:

• Reducing the time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis and treatment
• Treating patients more quickly during the critical window of time when the integrity of the heart muscle can be preserved
• Monitoring patients when it is not certain that they are having a heart attack to ensure that they are not sent home too quickly or needlessly admitted to the hospital

Sophisticated Testing and Treatment
Depending on the type and severity of the heart attack, the cardiac team may admit patients to the Chest Pain Center at the hospital to administer treatments to clear blocked arteries and restore blood and oxygen flow to damaged heart tissue. Patients are rapidly evaluated and a course of treatment is begun, if necessary.

The Chest Pain Center provides:

• A highly-skilled team of cardiology professionals, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• Sophisticated testing and treatment.
• Fast, appropriate triage for chest pain, dysrythmias and other heart emergencies.
• A private room.

Heart disease doesn't discriminate between the sexes. However, heart disease does treat men and women differently. More men than women have heart attacks, and at younger ages, but women are less likely than men to survive a heart attack. Call our Direct Doctors Plus information line at 1-800-874-5775 now for a free copy of "Men and Heart Disease" or "Women and Heart Disease", courtesy of the Chest Pain Center of Northern Nevada.