Shortly after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, Kate Barsky started to experience shortness of breath and chest pains. The symptoms were so bad she had to be admitted to the emergency room at the hospital in Kamloops. “I said, ‘If they don’t find out what’s wrong with me, I’m going to die’,” Barsky Read More...
At 23 years of age, Chelsie Thurlow never thought about dying, let alone her heart stopping at any moment. But that changed in October 2010, when she went into cardiac arrest brought on by a rare viral infection. “I didn’t listen to all the signs I was given to seek medical help, except for one,” Read More...
Donors have completed the funding of a television production and broadcast centre that will enable health-care professionals around the world to learn about life-saving procedures pioneered at St. Paul’s Hospital. The Virtual Teaching Laboratory (VTL) is used to broadcast procedures at St. Paul’s to lecture theatres inside the hospital and locations around the world. Through Read More...
One of the most widely used diagnostic tests in cardiology, echocardiography employs ultrasound waves to painlessly produce images of the heart to aid in the diagnosis, management and follow-up of patients with any suspected or known heart diseases. Echocardiography plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of heart patients at St. Paul’s Hospital Read More...
The Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) program was launched at St. Paul’s Hospital in 2002. The program provides VADs, also known as mechanical hearts, to patients awaiting heart transplants, or patients with weak hearts who need a “break” to recover. In the same year the program was launched, the first VAD implantation was performed at St. Read More...
Promise, the bi-annual magazine of St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, provides updates and in-depth features on the innovative and world-leading care, research and teaching taking place at St. Paul’s. Receive a free mail subscription for future issues by emailing your name and address to sphfoundation@providencehealth.bc.ca View back issues of Promise Magazine View our most recent issue Read More...