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The Saint Francis Heart Center
Over the years, the Saint Francis Heart Center has provided the most advanced diagnostic services and treatments of heart disease to its patients.
Cardiologists from Saint Francis Hospital performed Tulsa's first heart transplant at the Saint Francis Heart Center in 1993. The Saint Francis Heart Center has gained world-wide acclaim for its innovations in the field of electrophysiology and the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. Numerous imaging options are also available for patients with heart disease.
More than 3,500 cardiac catheterizations are performed each year at Saint Francis. Cardiologists from the Saint Francis Heart Center completed Oklahoma's first angioplasty, a procedure that uses a balloon catheter to open narrowed arteries. 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.
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 Center 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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