We don't just help diagnose heart problems. We can also help you in the event of a heart attack. If you think you're experiencing one, call 911 immediately.
If you come by ambulance or if you arrive here on your own, you will be immediately assessed by a physician and may be given a thrombolytic or "clot- buster" drug or sent directly to the Cardiac Catheterization Lab for angioplasty.
According to clinical research, the outcomes of a heart attack improve dramatically when treatment can be administered quickly. Research has also demonstrated that offering angioplasty in the community hospital setting, where nearly 80% of heart attacks occur, is one of the best ways to increase the heart attack survival rate.
Thrombolytic drugs are anticoagulants that are given at the earliest sign of a heart attack and work to dissolve blood clots in the arteries. Patients who may be at an increased risk of bleeding, or are in an altered mental state, will probably not receive thrombolytic therapy.
Here at Uniontown Hospital, we want to do whatever we can - at every stage - to keep your heart healthy, keep you alive longer and treat you in the best, most appropriate way we know how, using the most up-to-the-minute medications and techniques known to mankind.
