During an emergency, seconds count, and one local hospital prepares for future emergencies. Mercy Health Lourdes purchased the GE Apex Revolution 312 Slice, one of eight machines nationwide.
for calcium which is part of the atherosclerotic process. the plaques in the heart. i ve never had a problem but you are looking for it anyways. yes, if you are heading for a heart attack in 5, 10, 20 years, you re already have plaque. you may recognize him as the author of the south beach diet books. but he s also the inventor of the coronary scan. he doesn t make any money from it. we all know plaque is bad. it blocks your blood vessels. plaque is formed by ldl cholesterol in the blood. the bad cholesterol. think of it as l, for lousy. building up on the walls of your arteries forming plaque. it can accumulate slowly, over time, narrowing the blood vessels like something building up inside a pipe. this narrowing in the blood vessels leading to your heart can cause chest pain, called angina. it can also cause a heart attack. did you ever wonder how seemingly healthy people can have a heart attack? this may surprise you. most heart attacks happen in people with no symptoms. in pe
that bothered me. that and the pain. if it happened to him, could it happen to you? what about me? i m a pretty typical guy in his early 40s with a family history of heart disease. so i decided to go on a mission to never have a heart attack. but how? when people talk about trying to end heart attacks in the world or in america at least, one of the ways to do that is to take a look inside the heart, see what s happening before someone ever has a problem. and that s what we re going to do here today. you re actually going to look for what? my heart? yes. for calcium which is part of the atherosclerotic process. the plaques in the heart. i ve never had a problem but you are looking for it anyways. yes, if you are heading for a heart attack in 5, 10, 20 years, author of the south beach diet books. but he s also the inventor of the coronary scan. he doesn t make any money from it. we all know plaque is bad.
i was lucky i didn t die of a heart attack. reporter: former president clinton, like too many people, was busy. and for years he ignored warning signs from his heart. but in 2004, during an exhausting book tour, there was something different. i had a real tightness in my chest when i was getting off the airplane and the only time i d had it unrelated to exercise. reporter: we re here outside new york presbyterian hospital. in just a couple of hours, former president bill clinton is scheduled to undergo surgery. so i immediately went down to our local hospital and they did a test, they said you got real problems. they hustled me down to columbia presbyterian and they confirmed the determination that i had serious blockage and needed the surgery. reporter: doctors immediately knew options were limited. the 58-year-old clinton needed to have his chest opened, his heart stopped, and surgery performed. there s no medical treatment for reversing the obstructions that