With the support of EU funds, Kardiocentrum Nitra has purchased an angiograph – a specialised and sophisticated medical instrument for cardiological applications – which has already helped to increase the number of operations providing better quality diagnostics and improve prevention against cardiovascular diseases.
- 17 October 2011
Thanks to the EU funds and new angiograph we can help more patients to return to full-health, leading a normal working and personal life. We save their lives and at the same time we prevent them from remaining as permanent invalids.
The project has allowed the centre to care for more patients with a notable increase in the number of completed hospitalisations, urgent health care operations - direct percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), extra coronary operations and examinations in the X-ray unit.
A centre in demand
The Nitra cardio centre was founded to provide a specialised facility for the therapy of acute myocardial infarction (myocardium) through blood flow restoration and to offer patients a range of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic options.
Ever since its foundation, the centre has been in great demand. Due to the high number of patients with cardiovascular diseases in the region around the centre and Nitra’s convenient geographic location, in the first three and half years of the facility’s existence, the number of patients increased several times over.
The centre covers an ‘attraction zone’ of about 1.2 million people – meaning those who can reach it within 60 minutes for emergency medical service to treat acute coronary syndromes. Over the course of 41 months of activity at the cardio centre, over 8 100 coronarographic examinations were carried out and more than 4 250 patients were inserted with stents.
Providing immense improvements in cardio care
One of the main reasons that the centre was founded was to provide direct PCI for acute infarctions – a state of the art therapy for treating such conditions. The angiograph has allowed the centre to become, in 2010, the place with highest number of cured acute (STEMI) infarctions within Czech Republic and Slovakia. This means that literally hundreds have been saved – a contribution that cannot be measured in numbers alone.
The statistics relating to the project speak for themselves. During the 12 months preceding the project, 2 057 completed hospitalisations were recorded at the centre, while during the 12 months following the project, completed hospitalisations increased to 2 938. Meanwhile, in the 12 months before the project, 12 extra coronary operations were performed, while in the 12 months after the project this number grew to 60 – this represents a growth of 500%.