Patient Health Education Portal: Cardiology

The EMCL app helps the user identify the closest specialized emergency medical center for trauma, stroke, ophthalmology, pediatrics, cardiology, and burn care. Read the reviews from CardioSmart and medGadget.

The H20 Overload app helps CHF and renal patients with fluid control. Read the review from iMedicalApps.

The Spot A Stroke app helps the user identify the signs of a stroke. Read the review from iMedicalApps.

American Heart Association

• Provides patients with comprehensive information on arrhythmia, cholesterol, heart attack, heart failure, high blood pressure, stroke, and congenital defects.
• Includes news; videos; and a tool called Heart360 that allows the user to track blood pressure, physical activity, cholesterol, glucose, weight, and medications.
• Spanish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese versions available.

CardioSmart

• Provides patients information on preventing, treating, and managing cardiovascular disease.
• Includes a glossary, BMI calculator, videos, and news.
• Spanish version available.

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

• Provides information on a wide range of heart and vascular disease topics.
• Includes a tool to estimate your risk of having a heart attack in the next 10 years; a body mass index calculator; a database of clinical trials seeking patients; videos; recipes; and downloadable books and fact sheets.
• Allows the user to change the text size.

National Stroke Association

• Provides information on prevention, risk factors, treatment, and rehabilitation.
• Includes free webinars; videos; downloadable brochures and factsheets; a list of Emergency Stroke Center locations; an online social network for caregivers; and information specific to women.
• Allows the user to change the text size.
• Spanish version available.

WomensHealth.gov

• Provides information on heart disease and stroke in women.
• Includes signs of a heart attack in women.
• Allows the user to change the text size.
• Spanish version available.

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Emergency Room
Location: Bldg 9A, 1st Fl
Phone: 301-295-4810
Hours: 24/7

MHS Nurse Advice Line
Phone: 800-874-2273
Hours: 24/7

Cardiology
Location: Bldg 9, 2nd Fl
Phone: 301-295-4500
Hours: M-F, 0730 - 1600

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Location: Bldg 9, 2nd Fl
Phone: 301-295-2552
Appointments: 301-295-6289 or 855-227-6331

Vascular Surgery
Location: Bldg 9, 2nd Fl
Phone: 301-295-4479
Hours: M-F, 0730-1600
Appointments: 301-295-6289 or 855-227-6331