About CVI
The Medial City’s Cardiovascular Program offers integrated, state-of-the-art care, encompassing non-invasive diagnostics, minimally-invasive interventional services, open heart surgery, and cardiac rehabilitation.
The team has also served as a model center for myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke cases, boasting of improved survival and enhanced quality of life for its patients.
With its expert staff of Interventional Cardiologists and state-of-the-art equipment, and a rapid response team, patients coming in for an acute MI can have a life saving procedure to open blocked arteries within minutes of being seen in the emergency room.
In 2015, The Medical City is the first hospital in the Philippines to receive a certification from Joint Commission International (JCI) for its Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) program. This distinction guarantees that TMC Cardiovascular Center has an AMI Program that targets a 90 minute or less Door-to-Balloon time. This means that a heart attack patient who walks through the doors of the hospital’s Emergency Department should have the blocked coronary artery opened in the Catheterization Laboratory within 90 minutes.
TMC’s AMI Program likewise retained its status as the only program of its kind with a Gold Seal of Approval in the Philippines, and one of only 16 around in the world with its re-accreditation in 2018.
TMC is also one of the first hospitals in the Philippines to offer Cardiac Catheterization via the radial (wrist) artery. Catheterization via the wrist artery is safer, leads to less bleeding, and is much more comfortable for patients, who can ambulate after the procedure and be discharged a few hours later. TMC Catheterization Laboratory currently uses transradial access in almost 90% of its coronary procedures. This is the highest percentage, by far, of all the Cardiac Catheterization Labs in the country and matches the leading centers in Europe and Japan.