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Coordinating cardiac services

Cardiac Services BC helps British Columbians get the best possible cardiac care.

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What we do

We improve how cardiac services are managed and accessed throughout the province by:

Monitoring cardiac disease-related prevention and treatment
Supporting timely access and sustainability within BC’s cardiac care system
Promoting knowledge translation and system transformation

BC cardiac care by the numbers (2019/20)

401 transcatheter aortic valve implantations
744 specialized heart valve procedures (transcatheter aortic heart valve implantation, other transcatheter valve implants and repairs)
1,021 implantable heart rhythm devices (implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy devices)
2,320 electrophysiology procedures
3,700 heart surgeries (coronary artery bypass grafts, valve replacements and other heart surgeries)
21,765 cardiac catheterization lab procedures (diagnostic angiograms, percutaneous coronary interventions)

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