Chest Pain Center

The Chest Pain Center at Silver Cross Hospital is a specifically designed area of the Emergency Department reserved for patients experiencing chest pain or cardiac problems. The Center is equipped with nine monitored beds and special medical equipment to immediately begin treatment for the patient experiencing chest pain.

A multidisciplinary team of emergency healthcare professionals, including physicians, registered professional nurses and technologists are dedicated to providing immediate care and triage to chest pain sufferers with state-of-the-art equipment and treatments because when dealing with chest pain, every second counts.

And just as every second counts before getting to the hospital, so it does once a patient arrives in the Emergency Department. The Chest Pain Center at Silver Cross Hospital is supported by a team of cardiologists, nurses and technologists who are available every day, 24 hours, 7 days a week, to provide emergent diagnostic coronary angiography to patients initially treated in the Emergency Department for chest pain. Also known as a "Cardiac Cath" this diagnostic procedure allows the cardiologist to visualize the arteries that supply the heart with blood and determine if a blockage is causing a heart attack.

Rapid assessment, diagnosis and treatment means less muscle damage and quicker recovery and are the primary goal of the Chest Pain Center at Silver Cross Hospital. This organized approach to the care of the cardiac patient also includes the hospital's Intensive Care Unit that is staffed with highly trained professionals who care for and educate patients during the recovery period following their treatment.

The Chest Pain Center is another example of how Silver Cross Hospital is treating patients the way they should be treated—with fast, lifesaving care.