Cardiac Alert for Chest Pain

Please Remember...

If you have an illness or injury that you believe is life threatening, or that will seriously harm you within 12 to 24 hours without a doctor's care, you should call 9-1-1- or go to the nearest emergency room.

Angel in the ER

Williams was just passing through town when severe chest pain lead him to the Sky Ridge Emergency Room where he found expert medical care and his dog, Wiggles, found a new friend.

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Cardiac Alert at Sky Ridge Medical Center

Rapid Response for Chest Pain & Heart Attack Patients

Sky Ridge has initiated the Cardiac Alert program with our community emergency medical services (EMS) to provide speedier diagnosis and treatment of heart patients. In fact, the Sky Ridge team has door-to-balloon times that are less than the national average at 52 minutes.

Time is Muscle

When it comes to a heart attack, time is muscle. The more time the heart is deprived of blood and oxygen, the more muscle tissue dies. Sky Ridge's Cardiac Alert program provides heart attack patients the medical care they need as fast as possible.

How Cardiac Alert Works

Once the paramedic has initiated a cardiac alert, Sky Ridge's Cardiac Alert Team, consisting of emergency medicine doctors, the cardiac cath lab team and a cardiologist, assemble. When the patient arrives at the hospital, he or she is taken directly to the cardiac cath lab. The goal here is to open up blocked arteries as quickly as possible. The team is ready 24/7!

Cardiac Cath Lab at Sky Ridge Medical Center
One of two state-of-the-art Cardiac Cath Labs
at Sky Ridge

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