Mount Sinai Hospital Plans External Review of Cath Lab’s Quality
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The head of cardiology at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital is starting an outside review of its cardiac catheterization lab, one of the most prolific heart-treatment centers in the U.S.
Valentin Fuster, director of Mount Sinai Heart, said he called for the review after a March 6 Bloomberg News article that raised questions about how the cath lab gets its patients caused him “some distress.” Doctors perform 17,000 procedures a year at the cath lab, including implanting cardiac stents into arteries to improve blood flow.