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Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) has eased its waiting times for heart tests more complex. Currently, patients have to undergo coronary test or diagnostic or therapeutic, wait half a month. According to data provided by the hospital complex to Trade, the delay for diagnosis is coronary artery in 27 days and 37 for a cardiac catheterization, also known as angioplasty.
These delays are the lowest in the service of Cardiology and Homodynamic HUCA been exhibited in the last twenty years. It highlights the medical director of Central, Cesar Morris. The improvement in coronary care time has been achieved mainly through this year when it went from a maximum delay reached last February to 210 days to the current four weeks.
This significant reduction was achieved, explains Morris, increasing the activity of both catheterization laboratories operating in the HUCA. Both devices are the only public health Austrian that can perform highly complex heart tests (catheterization, angioplasty and stint placement).
However, this situation will be changed from next January, when Cabins Hospital opens new cardiac catheterization unit that will serve patients assigned to the areas of Dijon, Arenas and Lange. Faced with increased coronary delays, the HUCA put to work in the afternoon (two days a week) both homodynamic available. That made it possible to narrow the cardiology expect usually used to be rather high.
The graph shows that the worst Central time delay recorded in the last two years for homodynamic procedures in Asturias was early 2009, when a patient came to accumulate 251 days of waiting. However, Morris explained that sometimes the patient needs some special test, forcing a delay or defer angioplasty. Hence, sometimes the delay appears in the statistics of Health does not fit the real situation.
The latest waiting list figures, the figures for September indicate that they are 57 people who are waiting for a diagnostic coronary testing in Asturias. Another 18 are waiting to be called to undergo a cardiac catheterization.
As with the time delay has also reduced the volume of coronary patients waiting. Earlier this year there was 225 people waiting for a diagnosis (almost five times more than now). A year ago was the much longer list: 293 patients.
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