Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...

A Swan-Ganz catheterization is a type of pulmonary artery catheterization procedure. It’s a diagnostic test used to determine whether any hemodynamic, or blood flow-related, abnormalities exist in the ...

Every minute, a healthy heart will pump out 1½ gallons of blood across more than 60,000 miles worth of blood vessels to provide each of our body's cells with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. When ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. For most people in rural western Colorado, the prospect of having a heart attack is a scary thought. Hospitals in the region, while offering quality care, are singularly ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a new scientific statement that clarifies the role of the cath lab in managing patients who’ve experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), both ...