Heart attacks rarely occur without warning. Quite often the symptoms of a heart attack appear weeks or even months before the actual occurrence. Early treatment may not only mean the difference between life and death, but also between a functional life compared to a disabled life.

At Lourdes, your complete heart care is our priority – from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment through the cardiac rehabilitation process.

Chest Pain Emergency Center at Lourdes
The Chest Pain Emergency Center at Lourdes is the first center of its kind in western Kentucky. We provide priority treatment to heart patients 24 hours a day within the Emergency Department. Our staff of nurses and physicians is specially trained in the care of cardiac emergencies. Immediately upon arrival, a nurse and physician examine chest pain patients, while an EKG, lab work, and chest X-rays are performed.

Cardiac Services
Cardiac services consist of the following departments:

• Chest Pain Emergency Center

• Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory:
  -Lourdes Inserts One Of Kentucky's First Drug-Eluting Stents
  -InSync pacemakers
  -Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Available at Lourdes

• Cardiac Surgery
  Lourdes Heart Center Offers Regions First Cutting-Edge Heart Surgery
  

• Nuclear Cardiac Imaging

• Electrocardiography

• Echocardiography

• Critical Care units

Intensive Care Unit
Coronary Care Unit
Progressive Care Unit
Post Progressive Care Unit

• Cardiac Rehabilitation

EECP - A noninvasive procedure to treat heart failure and angina

LOURDES IS A PROUD PARTNER WITH THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION'S "GO RED FOR WOMEN" CAMPAIGN! AMA Heart Risk Assessment.

NEW UNDERSTANDING OF HEART DISEASE AND WOMEN - Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in women older than 25. Women are less likely than men to...

Learn more about Lourdes Heart Center, treatment options, and prevention of heart disease.

Return to Our Health Services.