Bangkok Heart Hospital (BHT) is a specialised and especially designed private heart hospital in Thailand and is regarded as one of the finest cardiac facilities in the country. With its state-of-the-art technology and highly trained physicians and support personnel, BHT offers the most advanced and effective treatments in the fight against cardiovascular disease, and has treated more than 40,000 cardiac outpatients and performed more than 1,100 heart surgeries since opening its doors in 2005.
The Bangkok Heart Hospital is built from the success of the Bangkok Heart Institute which was established in 1989. The Bangkok Heart Hospital is the first private Heart Hospital in Thailand. It aims to provide excellent care for all types of heart disease and comprises a large group of experienced adult & paediatric cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, cardiac anaesthesiologists, cardiac rehabilitation physicians and radiologists who had their subspecialty training and working experiences from overseas including the US, Australia and Japan. The well-trained and experienced nurses, technicians and paramedical personnel provide 24-hour care of all heart diseases.
The Bangkok Heart Hospital has ten departments: the Heart Clinic, Non-invasive Investigation Laboratory, the Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Cardiac CT (Multi-slice CT Scan), Cardiovascular MRI (CMR0, the Cardiac Care Unit and cardiac ward, the Operating Theatres and CCU Ambulance (Mobile CCU). All are well equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
The Bangkok Heart Hospital provides 24-hour regular and special CCU ambulance services. Each ambulance is equipped with monitoring devices and resuscitation equipment. The medical team, specialized in taking care of patients with severe heart diseases, accompanying the ambulance is always prepared to act efficiently in any life-threatening situation.
The Bangkok Heart Hospital has a large number of full time cardiologists who specialize in state-of the-art angioplasty or Percutaneous Intervention (PCI) for the treatment of angina pectoris or chest pain and acute myocardial infarction or heart attack. PTCA for patients with heart attack, if performed early enough by experienced operator has been proven to have benefit over the treatment in such patients with medication alone.
The Bangkok Heart Hospital performs open heart surgery by using new technological procedures like "off pump" surgery. This procedure is being done to the beating heart and without the heart-lung machine. Off pump surgery avoids complications when the heart-lung machine is utilized. This technique also reduces the recuperation time and the hospital stay.