
The Einstein Institute for Heart and Vascular Health includes a state-of-the-art digital catheterization laboratory and outpatient
cardiac center. The facility also includes a 16-bed coronary care unit (CCU), an eight bed CICU (post-angioplasty patients),
four permanent cardiac catheterization laboratories, two state-of-the-art electrophysiology laboratories (the second new lab
has biplane fluoroscopy, intracardiac echocardiography, Carto and ESI three-dimensional mapping systems), two stress ECG laboratories,
state-of-the-art SPECT nuclear technology, three diagnostic echocardiography laboratories, and a cardiac CT/MRI unit.
In addition, three cardiovascular surgical operating suites are available and a separate post-operative heart surgical unit
(HSU). A dedicated color flow, two-dimensional echo machine with transesophageal echocardiography capabilities is currently
stationed in the operating room. In addition, intravascular ultrasound capability is present in the cardiac catheterization
laboratory.
Based on the 2006-2007 academic year, the following procedures were performed annually at the Albert Einstein Heart Center:
- 1,994 diagnostic catheterizations
- 497 percutaneous interventional procedures including PTCA's, rotational arthrectomy, directional arthrectomy and stents
- 862 electrophysiology lab procedures
- 4,785 nuclear stress tests
- 8,835 transthoracic echoes
- 517 transesophageal echoes
- 50,222 electrocardiograms