Mount Sinai Cath Lab Takes NYC Heart Emergencies by Appointment
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Certain patients who showed up at Mount Sinai Hospital’s emergency room on Sunday mornings stood out, and not because they were cases of gruesome trauma or exotic illness.
They drew scrutiny because they already had appointments. Each was scheduled for a procedure at Mount Sinai’s catheterization lab, where cardiologists thread wires and tubes into blood vessels to detect disease and insert cardiac stents.