Heart Attack—Chest Pain Center

Overview

When chest pain strikes, every second counts. At the Main Line Health Heart Center, we work with local EMS and dispatch partners to ensure rapid treatment for patients experiencing chest pain or other signs of a heart attack. We’ve streamlined our processes and treatment plans so that we can diagnose and treat cardiac conditions as quickly and effectively as possible.

In helping patients who are suffering, or have suffered, from chest pain, we can integrate a range of diagnostic and treatment resources, including:

• Full-service non-invasive cardiology department (including exercise stress testing)
• Echocardiography laboratory certified through the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL)
• Cardiac catheterization labs that offer balloon angioplasty and stenting
• Electrophysiology testing and treatment, including pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs)
• Cardiac surgery

The Main Line Team

The Main Line Health Heart Center includes three facilities – Bryn Mawr Hospital, Lankenau Medical Center, and Paoli Hospital – that are accredited chest pain centers with PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention, or angioplasty) through the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. To earn this accreditation, we’ve demonstrated that we have the people, processes and technologies needed to rapidly respond to and effectively treat heart attacks. The Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care grants such designation only to hospitals that closely follow American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association recommendations to improve and save lives.

Additionally, Main Line Health’s Bryn Mawr, Lankenau and Paoli Hospitals have been recognized with Magnet® designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This designation places Main Line Health in the top 3 percent of hospitals nationwide for nursing excellence.

Our Experience

When it comes to chest pain, the Main Line Health Heart Center offers the benefits of quantity and quality:

• The Main Line Health Heart Center performs than 1,600 coronary interventions annually.
• The Main Line Health Heart Center maintains a state-of-the-art catheterization lab for diagnosing and treating problems originating from a disturbance in blood flow.  Our chest pain center has 24x7 access to emergency catheterization lab teams who can perform PCI (more commonly known as angioplasty) to treat heart attacks resulting from a disturbance in blood flow.
• We also maintain a state-of-the-art electrophysiology lab for treating heart rhythm disorders.
• Patients of our chest pain center may also benefit from Main Line Health Heart Center’s cardiac rehab programs, which are certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR).

Why Choose Main Line Health

The Main Line Health Heart Center is one of the largest medical and surgical programs for heart disease in the region. We offer chest pain care at all our acute facilities – giving patients convenient, suburban access to leading-edge diagnostic and treatment capabilities.