Cardiac Imaging Center

The Cardiac Imaging Center was founded in 1987 as the hospital's cardiovascular ultrasound room and renamed in 2020. It performs cardiovascular ultrasound diagnosis and difficult-case consultation for the province and supports resident standardization and physician training. The center has 13 staff, 11 high-end Philips, Siemens and GE color Doppler systems, 1 chief physician, 1 associate chief, 3 attending physicians and 8 physicians; 1 has a doctorate and 10 a master's degree. It performs transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, myocardial contrast and stress echocardiography, intraoperative and interventional guidance, and more than 60,000 examinations annually, including TEE, valve repair guidance, left-atrial-appendage closure, TAVR and congenital-heart closure procedures.