Myongji Hospital Opens 'Daedongmak Vascular Center'... Establishes 24-Hour Hotline for Emergency Care

Opening Ceremony of Myongji Hospital Aortic Vascular Center.
Photo by Myongji Hospital

Myeongji Hospital announced on the 7th that it has opened the 'Aortic Vascular Center' to provide rapid and intensive treatment for ultra-emergency severe aortic diseases such as aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection, and has launched a 24-hour hotline emergency care system.

The Myeongji Hospital Aortic Vascular Center has established an effective treatment system for severe aortic diseases, with the Department of Thoracic Surgery at its core, creating an integrated care system through multidisciplinary collaboration among specialized medical staff in cardiology, vascular surgery, radiology, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

At the hybrid operating center, which includes an advanced angiography room ('Angio'), operating rooms, and examination rooms, hybrid surgeries are performed that combine interventional procedures and surgical operations simultaneously. In addition to traditional aortic surgery, percutaneous endovascular stent graft implantation procedures (EVAR, TEVAR) are also performed to treat elderly patients or those at high surgical risk with aortic diseases.

Furthermore, a rapid treatment system operates with experienced thoracic surgery specialists on-site 24/7, 365 days a year. A 24-hour 'Aortic Hotline' has been established to quickly transfer acute aortic patients from hospitals nationwide for emergency surgery. This system enables optimized emergency treatment such as aortic surgery, coronary artery bypass grafting, valve surgery, and ECMO not only for patients who visit the emergency room directly but also for acute aortic and cardiovascular patients who are difficult to manage at external hospitals through prompt transfer.

Hwang Seong-wook, director of the Aortic Vascular Center, stated, "Most aortic aneurysms have no symptoms until they rupture, so people often do not know they have an aneurysm until it is incidentally discovered during health check-ups or ultrasound or CT scans for cancer diagnosis. Skilled medical staff with extensive experience in complex interventional procedures and surgeries will contribute to the rapid treatment of aortic disease patients as well as reducing complications and mortality rates."

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