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Services
The Saint Francis Heart Hospital provides the most advanced diagnostic services and treatments of heart disease to its patients.
Cardiologists from Saint Francis Hospital completed Oklahoma's first angioplasty, a procedure that uses a balloon catheter to open narrowed arteries and performed Tulsa's first heart transplant in 1993. They were also the first in the state to use the drug, streptokinase. Saint Francis cardiologists participated in national studies of tPA, a drug that dissolves blood clots that could cause heart attacks.
More than 3,500 cardiac catheterizations are performed each year at Saint Francis. The Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation program teaches recovering heart patients how to incorporate healthy habits into their daily lives through a wide range of wellness classes and medically supervised exercise programs.
The Saint Francis Heart Hospital also reaches into surrounding communities, offering assistance to cardiac patients in a variety of ways. Saint Francis Remote Cardiac Monitoring network allows technicians and nurses to monitor cardiac patterns of patients in numerous Oklahoma hospitals using telephone lines.
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