Blair Stone’s a busy guy, with a government job and a jam-packed calendar that typically leaves him little time to hang around hospitals or to fuss over things like a twinge in the chest.
“I was out walking my dog when I got this chest pain. Most men go into denial with this sort of thing, so I made excuses like it was indigestion,” says the Red Deer man. “I had no idea what the pain of angina was supposed to feel like. So I basically ignored it.”
But the pain became more prevalent and, in September, the 58-year-old found himself at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, where received a stent in the catheter lab to relieve an obstructed artery. What really amazed Stone, however, was the fact that he was able to go home the very same day.
Like Stone, heart patients with narrowing or blocked arteries are now benefiting from a new Alberta Health Services (AHS) outpatient program that restores blood flow and returns them to the comforts of home the same day.
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“I was out walking my dog when I got this chest pain. Most men go into denial with this sort of thing, so I made excuses like it was indigestion,” says the Red Deer man. “I had no idea what the pain of angina was supposed to feel like. So I basically ignored it.”
But the pain became more prevalent and, in September, the 58-year-old found himself at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, where received a stent in the catheter lab to relieve an obstructed artery. What really amazed Stone, however, was the fact that he was able to go home the very same day.
Like Stone, heart patients with narrowing or blocked arteries are now benefiting from a new Alberta Health Services (AHS) outpatient program that restores blood flow and returns them to the comforts of home the same day.
Continue to the full article here.
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