Replay of: Cardiac Catheterization

First Seen Live Webcast: February 1, 2005 at 5:00 pm EST (22:00 UTC)

Cardiac Catheterization

Pomona, New Jersey- As part of its educational outreach for American Heart Month, the Heart Institute at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center offered the public a chance to watch two live cardiac catheterizations during a webcast of the procedures Tuesday, February 1 at 5 p.m. Howard Levite, MD, medical director of the Heart Institute at ARMC and director of the Heart Institute's cardiac catheterization laboratories; and Giuseppe Gioia, MD, FACC, is an interventional cardiologist at the Heart Institute at ARMC, performed the procedures. Nader Ghaly, MD, FACC, FAHA, director of electrophysiology and arrhythmia services at the Heart Institute at ARMC, moderated.

	Cardiac Catheterization

During a cardiac catheterization, which can be a diagnostic and a treatment procedure, the cardiac catheterization team inserts a thin plastic tube or catheter into an artery or vein in a patient's arm or leg. The team then threads the catheter into the chambers of the heart or into the arteries of the heart.

Cardiac Catheterization

"This webcast helped the public learn more about cardiac catheterization, emergency angioplasty and heart disease," said Howard Levite, MD, MBA, medical director of the Heart Institute at ARMC and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratories at ARMC. "Advances in heart catheterizations have led to many exciting diagnostic and treatment capabilities that are more efficient and effective for patients."

The Heart Institute is the only regional hospital that can provide low and high-risk cardiac catheterizations, because it is the only hospital the state has designated to perform cardiac surgery in the region. To learn more about AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center and the heart Institute Click Here.