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Cardiac Care

Phone:
218.249.5555
1.800.321.3790

Location:
St. Luke's Lakeview Building
1001 East Superior, Duluth, MN 55802

Our Program

St. Luke's Cardiac Care revolves around people. Our coordinated approach to care has the skilled staff to provide heart care that brings services and technology together.

Cardiac care may begin with your primary care physician. Or, you may have come to us through the emergency department where you were taken care of by our skilled doctors, nurses and support professionals. At St. Luke's, cardiologists can explore and maintain you heart's health. Cardiothoracic surgeons stand ready to repair or improved the function of your heart.

Cardiac rehabilitation specialists will help you regain the use of your heart. But our main goal is to keep your heart healthy. We also offer you opportunities to improve or maintain your heart health through a variety of community educational programs, services and support groups.  We understand and address the emotional side of your care-everything we do is personalized, respectful and compassionate.

We'll call or meet with you before surgery and an angiogram to let you know what will happen (including the smallest details, such as where to park). It's not the type of attention you would expect from a large cardiac center, but we believe it's the type of attention you deserve. Our cardiac specialty teams have developed one of the most comprehensive heart care programs you'll ever find. It's coordinated, comprehensive cardiac care that puts The Patient. Above All Else.

Emergency Cardiac Care

  • State-of-the-art diagnostic techniques such as angiograms and imaging studies
  • Treatment and medical management of heart diseases and conditions
  • Surgical interventions including open heart surgery or angioplasty
  • Cardiac rehabilitation following a heart attack or heart surgery.
  • Priority Attention for Cardiac-Related Symptoms
  • Rapid Transport Capabilities on Luke's One Helicopter
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support-Certified Physicians and Nurses
  • Immediate Access to All Subspecialties
  • Follow-up With Your Doctor or Referring Physician

For years now, St. Luke's has enjoyed the reputation as the region's designated trauma center. From the moment you arrive, you're part of a network of care that extends through every necessary specialty, and everyone in that network-nurses, technicians, doctors-is alerted to your arrival. That way, they can anticipate the proper course of care.

Cardiothoracic Surgery

  • Coronary Bypass Surgery
  • Beating Heart Technology
  • Endoscope Vein Harvesting
  • Cardiac valve Repair/Replacement
  • Aortic Surgery
  • Guided Imagery

Dedicated Cardiac Nursing Services

When you're here for cardiac care, these are the people you'll be with: the nurses, working for you day and night-before, during and after your stay. They answer questions, give comfort and offer a familiar face. Our expert nurses and clinical nurse specialists work only in critical care, so they're more experienced with the specific needs of cardiac patients and their families. They take care of everyone, one person at a time, and that's exactly why we call it intensive care

  • Cardiac Critical Care Unit staff with advanced training to handle all types of cardiac emergencies, including postoperative cardiac surgical care, advanced Cardiac Life Support-Certified staff
  • Cardiac Unit with 25 Telemetry Beds

What is Heart Disease?

Everyone is at risk for cardiovascular disease. Man or woman, young or old. the disease blindly kills more Americans each year than anything else. One every 33, as a matter of fact. And if you identify with any of the cardiac risk factors, your odds are even more alarming.

Heart Failure

Heart failure is a progressive condition in which the heart's muscle becomes weakened after it is injured from something like a heart attack or high blood pressure and gradually loses its ability to pump enough blood to supply the body's needs. Many people don't even know they have it because symptoms are often mistaken for signs of getting older. Heart failure does not develop overnight - it's a progressive disease that starts slowly and gets worse over time.

Although heart failure may strike at any age, it is more common in people over the age of 65.

Tests are complex and giving a patient an answer to the questions, "What's wrong with me?" becomes a priority. We explain each procedure in-depth and stay with you throughout the entire process, because when you feel more comfortable and more informed your treatment will be a more positive experience.

St. Luke's offers state-of-the-art diagnositc and surgical equipment, and an experienced team of cardiologists, surgeons and technicians provide advanced care with personal attention.

Non-Invasive Tests
Invasive Tests and Procedures
Therapeutic Procedures
Anticoagulation Clinic
Heart Failure Clinic 
Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP)
Outreach Sites

Patient Resources

www.americanheart.org
www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
www.womenheart.org/

 

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