Then drop by the worldâs smallest desert just before your stop at dazzling Emerald Lake where youâll turn around and drive back to Skagway. Car rental in Skagway is available from Avis, Alaska Green Jeeps, (both seasonal) and Sourdough Rentals (year-round). You can take Road Trip Alaskaâs Road to Emerald Lake audio tour or e-guidebook with you as your personal guide to some of the best sights in the north. Youâll discover hidden attractions, learn about the history, geography, and people of the north, and see the most interesting sights.
Healing Hearts from Within. Cardiac catheterization is a diagnostic tool used by heart specialists (or cardiologists) to evaluate the heart. Cardiac catheterization is an important method for detecting a range of heart problems. Specifically, the test enables physicians to view coronary arteries, which supply the heart with blood and oxygen.
The Cardiac Center team performs more than 850 pediatric heart surgeries a year, including open heart and closed heart procedures and heart transplants. Open heart procedures, which represent a major portion of our volume, require cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung bypass machine) and are usually the most complicated and complex procedures. Pediatric heart surgery survival rates reflect the number of patients who survived within 30 days of the surgery or until the time they were discharged, whichever period is longer. We track outcomes from common procedures as âQuality Indicatorsâ for congenital heart surgery. The following data shows CHOP's outcomes for these procedures. The cardiac surgery indicators are included in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database and in the National Quality Forum (NQF) standards for pediatric heart surgery. The STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database contains data from over 100 congenital heart surgery centers in North America. The NQF is a nonprofit organization that sets or endorses standards to measure quality in healthcare. Common procedures. Open heart/cardiopulmonary bypass cases; Arterial ...