Heart care on The Strip
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center offers advanced cardiovascular care to Southern Nevada and the surrounding region. With a cardiac event, every second counts, and we work as a team to get patients the treatment they need quickly.
In addition to treating more heart patients than any other hospital in Las Vegas, we are well equipped with some of the best cardiology-related services available anywhere. Our heart doctors provide a range of services, from routine diagnostic testing to heart attack treatment.
To find a doctor specializing in heart health, call our Consult-A-Nurse® line at (702) 233-5454 or our cardiology associates at (702) 961-5020.
Quality heart care in Las Vegas
There are various organizations or facilities you could choose from when determining where to receive cardiac care. When you choose Sunrise Hospital, you have access to leading cardiology services and advanced procedures.
Benefits of receiving care from our facility include:
- We are certified in disease-specific care for chest pain by The Joint Commission.
- We have a pediatric and adult arrhythmia center—the only hospital in the state to offer electrophysiology procedures to pediatric patients.
- We are the only hospital in Nevada to offer comprehensive pediatric heart surgery for congenital (present at birth) heart abnormalities.
- We have seven cardiac catheterization labs where we treat all types of heart disease.
- Our cardiovascular surgery physician assistants are unique among heart programs in the state and are available to help with heart cases.
Are you at risk for heart disease?
You can't control some risk factors for heart disease such as heredity and gender. However, most cases of heart disease can be prevented. They include:
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Obesity
- Physical inactivity
- Smoking
- Type 2 diabetes
One in three Americans suffers from some form of heart disease. You can find out if you're at risk by taking our heart health assessment.
Once you receive your results, you can talk to your physician about your next steps. Although this is a valuable tool, this assessment isn't a substitute for an examination by your physician.
Take the Heart Health Assessment
Conditions we treat
At Sunrise Hospital, our heart specialists are trained and experienced in treating a range of cardiovascular diseases and conditions, including the following:
Heart attack
A heart attack occurs when one or more arteries to the heart become blocked with plaque or cholesterol. The heart muscle can die due to the lack of blood flow. That's why you need immediate care if you're experiencing any of the following symptoms:
- Pressure, tightness or pain in the chest that may radiate to the arms, neck, jaw or back
- Nausea, indigestion or heartburn symptoms
- Shortness of breath
- Cold sweat
- Fatigue
- Lightheadedness or dizziness
Our hybrid operating room is designed for high-tech heart procedures. The room allows heart disease specialists to perform cardiac catheterization procedures and surgeries in the same operating room, which can save vital time. This hybrid OR is the first of its kind in Southern Nevada.
Heart failure
Heart failure occurs when the heart can't pump enough blood efficiently because it's too stiff or weak. Conditions such as narrowed arteries in your heart or high blood pressure can eventually lead to heart failure.
At Sunrise, we can implant a small device into your pulmonary artery to measure your blood pressure and heart rate. The device can send the data wirelessly to your team of specialists, who can monitor any changes and recommend a change in treatment if necessary.
Heart arrhythmia
Your heart has electrical currents and signals that cause it to pump blood and contract. If there is something wrong with the electrical signals, your heart can pump too fast, too slow or irregularly.
We can also treat many types of arrhythmia and other disorders of the heart's electrical system in our electrophysiology labs.
Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC)
If you have atrial fibrillation (AFib), your heart’s two upper chambers beat in an abnormal pattern too quickly. This can decrease the amount of oxygen your body receives.
We offer a special program to treat complications from AFib, which includes a LAAC implant. During AFib, blood may collect in a small sac in the heart called the left atrial appendage. Clots may form there, and if a clot breaks loose and travels to the brain, it may cause a stroke.
Doctors can seal off the left atrial appendage by inserting a parachute-shaped device into the opening and expanding it so no blood can collect there.
In this virtual seminar, an electrophysiologist and cardiologist at Sunrise Hospital discusses AFib and technology created to help reduce the long-term risk of stroke for AFib patients.
Learn more about the LAAC device and its potential benefits for AFib patients.
Heart valve disease
Heart valves open and close to allow blood to flow through your heart. When something happens to these valves, either through disease or a congenital abnormality, blood can't flow properly throughout the body. If it's not treated, it can cause heart rhythm problems, blood clots or heart failure.
At Sunrise Hospital, we offer several procedures to treat problems with heart valves:
- Transcatheter mitral valve therapy treats mitral regurgitation, a condition in which your heart's mitral valve doesn't close tightly. This allows blood to flow backward in your heart.
- We can replace a blocked or leaky valve that has been previously repaired using a bioprosthetic valve at the end of a balloon catheter.
- We offer testing and treatment of heart murmurs, which are sounds blood can make flowing through the heart. they can be either harmless or a sign of something more serious.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
TAVR is a special way to treat a narrowed aortic valve that fails to open properly. Doctors use a catheter to implant a replacement valve into the opening without removing the old valve.
Once the new valve expands, it pushes the old valve leaflets out of the way and the tissue in the replacement valve takes over the job of regulating blood flow. Doctors use a small incision in the skin to replace the valve, which allows for better outcomes and quicker patient recovery.
In this virtual seminar, an interventional cardiologist at Sunrise Hospital discusses advanced heart disease and aortic stenosis and how TAVR can help.
Online pre-registration
Are you scheduled for a procedure or surgery? If so, you may pre-register online.
