The Heart Institute of St. Luke’s Medical Center offers cutting-edge technologies that detect early-stage heart disease and thereby intervene before a heart attack manifests clinically.
These life-saving tests include Nuclear Stress Testing, Echocardiography, Coronary Angiography/Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cathlab), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), 64-Slice CT Scanner, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner.
All six tests were featured in a Time magazine cover story titled “How To Stop A Heart Attack Before It Happens.”
The Time article explained the many technological advances in the area of diagnostic imaging, which help doctors make accurate diagnoses and prescribe targeted treatments.
St. Luke’s Medical Center is the only healthcare facility in the Philippines that has all the advanced equipment featured in the Time cover story.
To provide doctors and other health professionals with the latest knowledge in caring for patients with the use of these technologies, the St. Luke’s Heart Institute will hold a postgraduate course on ECG, stress test and nuclear imaging on Nov. 9-10 at 2/F, Conference Room, St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Topics to be discussed include Chamber Enlargement, AV Blocks, Basic Electrophysiologic Concepts of Exercise, Exercise ECG: Its Value for Predicting Cardiovascular Risk, Abnormal Stress Testing: Beyond ST Segment, and Basic Principles, Indications, Contraindications of Nuclear Testing.
Among other equally expert physicians, the course speakers include St. Luke’s Heart Institute director emeritus Dr. Homobono Calleja, ECG and Holter Laboratory Department head Dr. Juliana Tamayo, and Nuclear Cardiology Section chief Dr. Edward Benjie Magsombol.
The St. Luke’s Heart Institute is ably directed by top cardiologists, interventionalists and surgeons who are supported by a highly trained paramedical staff.
With a 99 percent success rate in open-heart surgeries and coronary angioplasty and stenting, the institute, under the directorship of Dr. Antonio Sibulo Jr., is comparable with the best medical centers in the world.
For more information, call 723-0101/0301 ext. 5402 and 5403.