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Innsbruck is opened to the cardiology hotspot: new cardiac catheter laboratory!
Rising heart attacks: progress in diagnostics, minimally invasive methods and AI revolutionize cardiology in Innsbruck.
Innsbruck is opened to the cardiology hotspot: new cardiac catheter laboratory!
In the past ten years, the number of acute heart attacks in Austria has doubled. This is primarily due to a combination of improved diagnostics, demographic change and new treatment methods, as the cardiologist Bauer explained at a press conference. Thanks to modern minimally invasive procedures, which are less stressful for the elderly, many affected people today survive their heart attack and thus experience further incidents in old age. In addition, the general trend of aging the population of experts is mentioned as another decisive factor for the increase in these health problems, the Kleine Zeitung .
Nevertheless, Bauer sees no connection between the increasing heart attack rate and unhealthy lifestyle or a lack of health awareness. On the contrary, according to him, awareness of health has improved significantly recently. This is underpinned by the decline in mortality in industrialized countries, which is favored by medical progress and new medication. Another innovative aspect in cardiology is the use of artificial intelligence (AI), which, for example, takes over EKG analyzes and thus enables a better understanding of heart health, the Krone .