Here are accomplishments, achievements and firsts in the cardiology space that Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 14:
- Athens, Tenn.-based Starr Regional Medical Center completed its first implantation of Medtronic’s Micra leadless pacemaker, a device for patients with slow heart rhythms.
- Cardiologists at UAB St. Vincent’s, part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, became the first in the Greater Birmingham area to use sound wave technology to treat severely calcified peripheral artery disease.
- Piedmont Cartersville (Ga.), part of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, in partnership with Cumming, Ga.-based Heart and Vascular Care, successfully completed the first cardiac ablation procedure in northwest Georgia.
- Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute became the first in South Florida to offer the FDA-approved Minima stent, a first-of-its-kind cardiac heart stent designed to expand as a child grows.
- Physicians at Atlanta-based Emory University treated the first patients in an investigational device exemption trial evaluating a Simpsons Interventions device for coronary chronic total occlusions.
