Patient Stories and Heart Health Tips

Team-Based Cardiac Care Model Benefits Patients at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center—and Beyond
To address unique patient needs, the Heart and Vascular Center has created several multidisciplinary Heart teams.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua announces hiring of new cardiologist
Zhihang Zhang, MD, is now accepting patients

AFib’s on the Rise. A New Approach May Help Treat It.
Pulsed Field Ablation is a new way to treat a condition that is becoming increasingly common in the United States. Here’s what you need to know about AFib and how to address it.

Protect Your heart With These Prevention Tips
Heart disease is America’s number one killer. Understand your risks so that you can make meaningful changes to your lifestyle and diet.

A Day in the Life of Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse Manager Kristen Frechette, RN
How one Dartmouth Health nurse helps give cardiac patients the confidence to go back and do the things they love.

Dartmouth Health researchers studying hand screening technique for early diagnosis of life-threatening multi-system disorder
Cardiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, and pathologists at DHMC are collaborating on groundbreaking research aimed at identifying early signs of amyloidosis, a progressive and multi-system disorder.

DHMC, CHaD recognized for excellence in echocardiography
DHMC’s Heart and Vascular Center has been IAC accredited for echocardiography since the accreditation program’s launch.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Heart and Vascular researchers look at need for preoperative stress testing
Using nationwide vascular registries and data, multiple Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) studies show that doctors may need to change who they order stress tests for before surgery.

Associated Press: DHMC nurse saved by colleagues during cardiac arrest—while training to treat cardiac arrest patients
Andy Hoang, RN, began her nursing career at DHMC this spring

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center only hospital in northern New England to offer limb-saving procedure to patients destined for amputation
DHMC one of just 25 hospitals nationally to offer LimFlow