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Wentworth-Douglass Hospital offers comprehensive heart care service - using advanced diagnostic tools that treat ever aspect of cardiac care from acute heart attacks to chronic rhythm abnormalities. Cardiology provides multiple services to all referred patients including various examinations such as routine EKGs, Holter hook-up and analysis, stress tests and the more sophisticated studies and procedures such as Nuclear-Cardiology. Our state-of-the-art nuclear imaging system ensures early detection of heart disease which can often be key to preventing serious illness.
Furthermore, Wentworth-Douglass is the only hospital on the Seacoast to have an all-digital catheterization laboratory from Siemens, one of the most trusted names in medical technology.
Intervention can now be performed on any obstruction found by using angioplasty
technique (a balloon) and/or also Stenting and Drug Eluting
Stent Procedures (a hollow wire mesh tube which is placed in
the blood vessel). These are devices used to open up the arteries
and veins in lieu of surgery. The Heart Care Center is dedicated
to treating every aspect of your health from prevention to
rehabilitation. We offer
programs for smoking cessation, nutrition, and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Phase II and III exercise and education programs. It's
the expertise of the
dedicated staff comprised of veteran doctors and experienced
nurses that really differentiates The Heart Care Center.
For more information, please call (603) 740-2121.
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