Modern ways of treatment of acute coronary syndrome: experience of Tyumen cardiologists

On December 2, 2013 health care experts of the Council of the Federation Committee on Social Policy held a circuit sitting in Regional Clinical Hospital No1. Tyumen cardiologists and health care organizers discussed regional experience in the perfection of high-performance methods of prevention and treatment of acute coronary syndrome.


Head of the Primary Vascular Center of the City Clinical Hospital No 51 (Moscow) Prof. Dmitriy Zateyschikov highly appreciated the level of cardiology development in our region. “Tyumen region gets ahead of Moscow in many respects. Maybe we could follow your example to introduce something new.” He also communicated: “Special attention should be paid to patients with acute coronary syndrome who are to be admitted to a hospital as soon as possible. Nowadays 50% of people die at the first 90 minutes of the onset of the disease; that is why we must do everything to make our patients seek medical attention as early as possible – that is the only way to save their lives. It is important to educate the public about the necessity of emergency call in time. Medical community’s main task is to inform everybody about the symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, principles of behavior in the following situation and location of the nearest cardiology hospital.”
Population of Tyumen region today has an access to state-of-the-art technologies that enable to reestablish blood flow in the damaged artery quickly and effectively, thereby improve blood supply to the heart. Specialists of Tyumen Cardiology Center managed to obtain significant results in this regard. At the meeting Prof. V.A. Kuznetsov, Director of Tyumen Cardiology Center, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation told the participants about innovative technologies in heart treatment in Tyumen. Vadim Kuznetsov mentioned that until 2006 the Center have been practicing 24-hour primary balloon angioplasty for emergency assistance of patients with acute coronary syndrome. As a result the staff succeeded in reducing the mortality rate in patients of this group, now we annually save extra 22 people. At the meeting Vadim Kuznetsov received a letter of appreciation for contribution to the system of cardiological help to the population of Tyumen region.
Distinguished guests and participants of the meeting were Lyudmila Kozlova, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation Committee on Social Policy and Vitaliy Omelyanovskiy, Chairman of health care experts of the Council of the Federation Committee on Social Policy (Moscow). Cardiologists from Kemerovo and Surgut also shared their experience at the meeting.