“Not all chest pain is a heart attack or a sign of heart attack. Usually chest pain, if you use your finger and point at your chest, that’s not a heart attack. Usually chest pain — called a visceral pain — is a diffused pain, it’s internal. You feel an uncomfortable sensation, and something which you have never experienced. Or, if you’re known to have heart disease, something which is gradually worsening, despite taking medication under the tongue called nitroglycerin. But usually chest pain related to heart attack has other symptoms – difficulty breathing, profuse sweating without any physical activity, and then nausea and vomiting. And usually the symptoms progressively get worse. Initially, it could be waxing and waning. But it gets progressively worse and needs medical attention. The biggest problem is people recognize this as heartburn and tend to ignore it. If you’re concerned about a heart attack or severe symptoms, call 911, go to the nearest emergency room. That will be the biggest help to doctors and to patients and the families to make sure you get promp,t efficient care to save lives.”
Make an appointment with Ramesh Gowda, MD
Ramesh Gowda, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients in Brooklyn Heights. Trained inKarnataka, India and New York City, he is certified by the American Board of Vascular Medicine and a member of the American College of Cardiology American College of Chest Physicians, the Society for Vascular Medicine, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He was awarded his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and completed two residencies in Internal Medicine at Long Island College Hospital and SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and his fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Beth Israel Medical Center. In 2001, Dr. Gowda received the American Medical Association’s Physician Recognition Award and, in 2003, he received Long Island College Hospital’s Research Excellence Award and was nominated for the American Biographical Institute, Inc.’s American Medal of Honor.
Mount Sinai Doctors, 300 Cadman Plaza West, is a two-floor multispecialty practice with a walk-in urgent care center and more than 35 specialties, including Adolescent Medicine, Allergy, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes Education, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Infectious Disease, Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Nephrology, OBGYN, Ophthalmology, Optometry & Optical Shop, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Travel Medicine, Urology, and Vascular Surgery. The practice is located at 300 Cadman Plaza West, on the 17th and 18th floors, in Brooklyn Heights. You can make appointments online at http://www.mountsinai.org/bh or via ZocDoc.
The prestigious two-star safety rating for the PCI procedure, also known as angioplasty, was awarded to, from left, George Dangas, MD, PhD; Annapoorna S. Kini, MD; and Samin K. Sharma, MD.
The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory has become the first to have three interventional cardiologists receive the highest two-star safety rating from the New York State Department of Health for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), also known as angioplasty. PCI—one of the most common procedures for patients with coronary artery disease—opens blocked arteries and restores normal blood flow to the heart. (more…)
Patient Rosalene Dennis, center, learns about the medications she will need post-discharge from Lisa Martin, RN. The medications were delivered to her bedside through a new partnership with CVS Health. At left is Judith Maria, the CVS Concierge assigned to the program.
More than 300 patients at The Mount Sinai Hospital have participated in a new partnership with CVS Health that allows them to receive the delivery of their medications to the bedside prior to discharge. The service, launched earlier this year as a pilot program, is currently available in 15 units and will be rolled out to 28 units by mid-July. “We are very excited about this innovative collaboration,” says David L. Reich, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Mount Sinai Hospital. “This service is not only a convenience for our patients, but also enhances the ability of our staff to communicate more effectively about post-discharge medications. This will undoubtedly help some of our patients achieve improved clinical outcomes.”
There was heavy rain on National Walking Day, so leadership and staff took to The Mount Sinai Hospital’s one-mile, indoor walking route.
Several hundred Mount Sinai Health System employees laced up their sneakers and participated in a number of 30-minute, lunchtime walks in their hospital campus communities on Thursday, April 7, National Walking Day, to raise awareness of the benefits of walking for cardiovascular health. Sponsored by the American Heart Association, National Walking Day calls on all individuals, communities, and workplaces to help in the fight against heart disease by increasing and encouraging physical activity. “Walking at lunchtime is an easy way to fit daily exercise into your busy life,” says Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President of Cardiac Services for the Mount Sinai Health System.
From left: Rami O. Tadros, MD, FACS; James F. McKinsey, MD, FACS; and Michael L. Marin, MD, FACS, are using a new-generation implantable device to treat complex thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms.
Physicians at The Mount Sinai Hospital were among the first in the nation to implant an investigational device, a fabric and metal mesh tube known as a stent graft, as part of a clinical trial to treat aneurysms located in the thoracic/abdominal area of the aorta. Mount Sinai is one of only six institutions in the nation granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the safety and initial feasibility of the device in patients.
The stent graft is used to strengthen the inner lining of the aorta—the main artery that carries blood from the heart to organs—in patients where the aortic walls have weakened and caused a balloon-type bulge known as an aneurysm to grow. Once implanted, the device serves to direct blood flow away from the aneurysm, causing it to shrink in size. If not repaired, the aneurysm can rupture and result in life-threatening internal bleeding. (more…)
