Here are five cardiology firsts Becker's has covered since Oct. 10:
- Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute became the first in Illinois to successfully transplant a heart donated after circulatory death.
- Minneapolis-based Allina Health opened the state's first cardiovascular ASC.
- Intermountain Healthcare became the first in Utah to perform a new lifesaving heart procedure.
- Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center became the first facility in the nation to use a new heart biopsy device.
- Tulsa-based Oklahoma Heart Institute cardiologists were the first in the world to use a new heart valve implant.