The Wisconsin Heart Hospital

POSSIBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT 42 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE. The national guideline is 90 minutes. If you get it done in 60 minutes, you’re good. But 42 minutes? That’s incredible. And when you’re talking about your life, why settle for anything else.

Cardiologists call these 42 minutes “door to balloon” time and ours is the best in town. It’s the average time for a cardiac emergency patient to get from the hospital door to having their blocked artery opened. Speed’s important. The faster a blocked artery is opened, the less permanent damage is done to healthy heart tissue. And healthy heart tissue is what keeps us alive.

The Wisconsin Heart Hospital is the only specialty heart hospital in Milwaukee. It’s where some of the finest specialists in the area deliver the art and science of modern cardiac care with life-saving velocity. It’s where every minute is important.

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WHEN HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS STRIKE, SECONDS COUNT. The Wisconsin Heart Hospital is Milwaukee’s first nationally accredited Chest Pain Center, which means we’re able to diagnose and treat emergency heart conditions twice as fast as national averages and faster than anyone in the area. If you think you’re having a heart attack, or if you experience the symptoms of a heart attack, call 911 and ask to be taken to The Wisconsin Heart Hospital.

Setting a new standard Medical professionals refer to the time it takes for a person to get from the hospital’s front door to receiving an angioplasty (the blocked coronary artery is dilated with a balloon catheter) as “door to balloon” time. The national guideline is 90 minutes. If you can get it done in 60 minutes, you’re good. But at The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, our average is 42 minutes—measurably faster than anyone else in town. That’s incredible. And when you’re talking about a major heart attack and your life, why settle for anything else?

How’s this possible? Easy. The Wisconsin Heart Hospital has the three key ingredients that make such incredible success attainable: superb physicians, state-of-the-art technology and a facility designed specifically for cardiac care.

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Physicians and nurses—some of the area’s finest Our medical staff boasts the area’s leading physicians and nurses. These are the same people whose skill and expertise have established the reputations of other institutions in Milwaukee and beyond. Their experience

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