Referring Physician Information
Amplatzer PFO Occluder
Centennial Heart Diagnostic Testing Services
Physician Resources on the Web
Drug Information Online - Prescription and Over
the Counter (OTC) information for consumers and professionals.
FDA
Heart Health OnLine - Questions and Answers on Coronary Drug Eluting Stents
The Centennial Heart Center - The Centennial Heart Center is designated
as a Cardiac Center of Excellence by the Clinical Cardiovascular Management Network
(CCMN) of HCA. Centennial is one of only four hospitals from across all 165 HCA
hospitals eligible for this designation. The Centennial Heart Center has a history
of exploring new and better ways to perform heart surgery. Centennial was the first
hospital in Tennessee to perform minimally invasive bypass surgery in 1996, and
to pioneer off-pump or "beating heart" bypass surgery.
AACVPR - Founded in 1985, the American Association
of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) is dedicated to the professional
development of its members, through information, networking, and educational opportunities.
Central to the mission is the improvement in the quality of life for patients and
their families.
American College of Cardiology - The American
College of Cardiology (ACC) is a professional society of over 28,000 cardiovascular
physicians and scientists from around the world that support ACC's mission, "to
foster optimal cardiovascular care and disease prevention through professional education,
promotion of research, leadership in the development of standards and guidelines
and the formulation of health care policy."
American Heart Association - The American
Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce
disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Eskind Digital Biomedical
Library at Vanderbilt Medical Center - an extensive digital library of electronic
journals, books, databases and other resources, in addition to over 200,000 print
volumes.
NASPE Heart Rhythm Society - NASPE - Heart
Rhythm Society, incorporated in 1979, has a membership of approximately 3,500 physicians
and associated professionals from the United States, Canada, Mexico and many other
countries. NASPE - Heart Rhythm Society is the dominant professional group representing
the allied specialties of cardiac pacing and cardiac electrophysiology in North
America and plays an important role not only in education but also as an intermediary
between government regulatory agencies and members of the profession.
National Library of Medicine
- PubMed - PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional
life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources.
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Tennessee Medical Association