Hartford Hospital is a 938 bed tertiary care facility established in 1854. The Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Hartford Hospital is a one-year ACGME approved program. The program offers 3 positions for training every year.
The Interventional Cardiology program at Hartford Hospital annually performs:
- 6600 diagnostic procedures
- 1700 coronary interventions
- 350 STEMIs
- 100 CTOs
- 200 CHIP cases
- 600 Structural heart interventions
- Endovascular arterial/venous interventions
- Renal denervation
- PE interventions
- Endocardial biopsies
Each fellow can expect to perform between 350 and 450 coronary interventions during the one-year program easily exceeding the minimum ACGME procedural volume requirement. Fellows will be the primary operator on the majority of these procedures.
The procedures are performed in facilities consisting of:
- 5 full-time labs,
- 1 swing lab, and
- 3 hybrid operating rooms.
Advanced training opportunity in Structural Heart Interventions exists after completing the one-year program in Interventional Cardiology. One position exists for Structural Heart fellowship annually.
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
All Interventional Cardiology Fellows at Hartford Hospital spend 12 months assigned to the cardiac catheterization laboratory. For every outpatient and inpatient procedure the fellows evaluate and examine the patient, determine the suitability of the procedure, explain the procedure to and discuss it with the patient and obtain informed consent. Each case is discussed prior to the procedure with the respective attending physician.
All interventional cases are performed under direct supervision of an attending physician who is also scrubbed in. If a diagnostic fellow is also participating in a case the Interventional Fellows mentor the junior fellow.