Cardiovascular Care at Seven Rivers Regional combines extensive physician experience and highly skilled, certified technologists with advanced technologies to detect and treat cardiac and vascular problems. A wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment options are available.
 
SRRMC is recognized by the American Heart Association (AHA) as a Get With The Guidelines program participant. The medical center is involved in all three AHA Get With The Guidelines programs - Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Failure and Stroke. The quality improvement initiative provides hospital staff tools that follow proven evidence-based guidelines and procedures.
 
In addition, the hospital joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 5 Million Lives Campaign, the first-ever national initiative to save a specified number of lives by a certain date. To this end, Seven Rivers Regional has implemented quality improvement changes in order to "deliver reliable evidence-based care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) . This is being accomplished by consistently delivering key measures--including early administration of aspirin and beta-blockers--which have been shown to prevent patient deaths from heart attack.

The Procedures

Non-Invasive Cardiology

• SPECT imaging
• 2D-M-mode and color flow doppler echocardiography
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Thallium stress testing
• Gated cardiac stress testing
• Electrocardiography
• Signal average electrocardiography
• Carotid ultrasound testing
• Pharmacological stress testing
• Arterial evaluation of upper/lower extremities utilizing doppler, segmental pressures and PPG

Invasive Cardiology

• Coronary angiography
• Carotid angiography to include intracranial circulation
• Thoracic aortography
• Renal aortography
• Peripheral arteriography including run-off studies of the legs
• Overdrive implantation
• Venography of extremities
• Pacemaker insertions

Peripheral Vascular Intervention

• Balloon angioplasty
• Intravascular stent placement
• Carotid endarterectomy and lower extremity endarterectomy
• Stent grafts (peripheral arteries)
• Thrombis pseudo aneurysm treatment
• Carotid patch angioplasty
• Aorto-bifemoral, femoral-femoral, femoral-popliteal and femorotibial bypass
• Radiofrequency ablation of varicose veins
• Endoscopic perforator subfascial surgery (for chronic venous insufficiency)
• Saphenectomy
• Vena Cava filter placement
• Open and endovascular repair (for arterial trauma)
• Open and endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
• Pericardial windows (for cardiac tamponade)
• Arterial venous fistula or arterial venous graft construction (for dialysis patients)