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Upper Cumberland doctors have a chance to get an accurate picture of their patients' hearts. Dr. Ashley Nickerson, a cardiac imaging specialist, started at Cookeville Regional Medical Center last ...(Read More)
Cardiologists at Tennessee Heart and Cookeville Regional Medical Center are bringing even more cutting edge technology to Cookeville. (Read More)
Patients with certain types of heart failure may be a step ahead with a new diagnostic tool now in use at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.Dr. Michael Lenhart has begun using a cardiac MEMS device. ...(Read More)
JAMESTOWN – It was a Sunday like any other. Kay Price had just left the church following a morning worshipping alongside her family. Opting to get her grocery shopping done on her way home, Kay decided to swing by the grocery store.
Those are a few of the last memories she has prior to waking up in the cardiovascular intensive care unit at Cookeville Regional Medical Center one week later.
Walking for as little as 30 minutes a day can make a big difference. That's the message cardiologist Dr. Scott Reising is wanting to get across with the launch of the second annual Walk with a Doc. The first walk is set for Saturday, April 14, at 8 a.m. and continues every Saturday through Sept. 29.
"We averaged about 25 people each week last year," Reising said. "We had a range of ages, from kids to older people."
The oldest participant was a veteran in his 90s and on a walker.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center proudly welcomes cardiologist William Wassynger, MD to its medical staff. He will be specializing in arrhythmias and electrophysiology, a sub-specialty of cardiology that deals with the electricity of the heart and treats heart arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation or other rhythm disturbances. He joins fellow electrophysiologist Mark Wathen, M.D., and other cardiologists at Tennessee Heart.
Board certified in both cardiac electrophysiology and cardiology, Dr. Wassynger comes to Cookeville with over 24 years’ experience in the field. He previously practiced at St. Thomas Heart in Nashville and at Mercy Cardiology Associates with Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He also practiced at Wenatchee Valley Medical Center in Washington where he developed a full-service electrophysiology laboratory, the first in north-central Washington.
He received his medical degree from Columbia University in New York in 1990. He then performed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham at UAB Hospital and a fellowship in cardiology and electrophysiology at Wake Forest University at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Over the past 24 years, he has been involved in a number of presentations and publications.
Dr. Wassynger will begin seeing patients on April 23 and may be reached at Tennessee Heart by calling 931-881-2039 or 888-352-8031.
Code STEMI protocol is catching on, thanks to training led by Dr. Stacy Brewington, interventional cardiologist at Tennessee Heart.
He led that training on Valentine's Day at Overton County EMS.
Code STEMI protocol empowers paramedics in the field to conduct an EKG and determine, from the results and the symptoms they are witnessing, whether they think a patient is having a heart attack. They can then call the emergency room at Cookeville Regional Medical Center where the heart team will be ready when the patient arrives.