Cath is medical shorthand for cardiac catheterization, a procedure that utilizes thin, hollow tube called catheters to examine heart function and to look for coronary disease. Physicians can measure pressure and blood flow through your heart by injecting contrast dye through the catheter and taking x-rays to follow the dye's progress through your coronary arteries. More »
Wyoming Medical Center is proud to announce that our Cath Lab has been accredited for percutaneous coronary intervention by Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence, an organization dedicated to ensuring adherence to the highest quality standards for cardiovascular and endovascular care. Ours is the only Cath Lab to earn the accreditation in the state of Wyoming. More »
Wyoming Medical Center has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. More »
Larry Bentley, 77, of Thermpolis was diagnosed with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis (AVS), a potentially fatal disease if left untreated. For Wyoming patients, treatment of AVS used to mean one of two options: Open-heart surgery or traveling hundreds of miles out of state for a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR. Not anymore. On March 5, Larry was the first patient to undergo TAVR in a Wyoming hospital. Wyoming Medical Center is the state’s first and only hospital to offer the life-saving procedure. More »
On Thursday, March 5, cardiac surgeon Eric Munoz, M.D., and interventional cardiologist Adrian Fluture, M.D., performed Wyoming's first transcutaneous aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Dr. Munoz writes about the experience here. More »
In January 1979, the Casper Star-Tribune featured the hospital's new C-arm, a state-of-the-art imaging device able to diagnose heart blockages in real time. In 2020, we are preparing to open a new Interventional Radiology Suite that will allow our cardiologists to offer a life-saving heart procedure for the first time in Wyoming. More »
Wyoming Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2019. WMC is one of only 225 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. More »
There’s an old Chinese proverb that Caryn Schulenberg has been thinking about a lot: If you save someone’s life, you are responsible for them forever. “I don’t believe that, but I do believe you are tied to them. There is part of you, because of what they gave you, that is tied to them forever,” she said. If that’s the case, then a trip to the grocery store has forever linked Caryn, her husband Bob, and a group of strangers who just happened to be at the right place, at the right time. More »
Without knowing it, hundreds of Wyoming adults may be carrying ticking time bombs in their chests. Aortic Valve Stenosis (AS) – a treatable but often undiagnosed heart condition – kills about 50 percent of adults within two years of the onset of symptoms. About half a million people in the United States are believed to have undetected AS. The good news is that AS is treatable, and it can be detected through an echocardiogram. More »
Wyoming Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2018. Wyoming Medical Center is one of only 203 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. More »
Wyoming Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Silver Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital. More »
What happens in the Wyoming Medical Center WARR Room? Nationally certified Critical Care Tech Sally Ann Vasquez explains. More »
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