Mother of Autistic Child Commends Cleveland Emergency Room for Taking Special Care of her Son
Catina Meggison was becoming frightened. For several days, her 7-year-old son Jaxon, who is severely autistic, had been sick with a fever and was becoming lethargic. With his Pediatrician out of town for the winter holiday, Meggison worried about taking Jaxon to a facility with which he was unfamiliar.
New Cath Lab Brings Cutting-edge Cardiac Care to Cleveland, Texas Residents
Texas Emergency Hospital is committed to bringing quality healthcare to you with 24/7 ER access for any medical emergency and little or no wait time.
Previously, residents in and around Cleveland, Texas, had to travel 30 to 40 minutes or further for just about any type of cardiac catheterization procedure. But with Texas Emergency Hospital’s new state-of-the-art Cath Lab, the facility’s board-certified healthcare professionals can treat and diagnose those heart-related conditions quickly and effectively just down the road.
3D Printer Creates a New Ankle, Saves Man’s Leg
Steven Callaway was all but convinced that he was going to lose his leg. It had started with some strange, unexplained swelling around his left ankle in the summer of 2017. Doctors had no idea what was wrong and started giving him cortisone shots for the pain. Then, during a round of golf, the joint finally collapsed. After surgery to fuse the bones, three months on a knee scooter and then another collapse, the doctors told Callaway his only option was to amputate the entire left leg below the knee and replace it with a prosthetic.
Local Cardiologist & LifeVest are Life-Savers for Romayor, TX Woman
In 2015, Katrinia Brunson realized something was wrong. She was suddenly tired all the time, regardless of the amount of sleep she obtained. She would experience dizzy spells where she felt like she was about to pass out. She had an unexplained weight gain and her legs would swell. It got to the point where she could no longer tend to the 15 head of cattle on her family’s 17 acres just outside of Romayor, Texas, the tiny town just north of Houston where she had spent almost all of her life. She was only 43 years old.
New State of the Art CATH LAB
At Texas Emergency Hospital in Cleveland, Tx, we can now routinely perform left and right heart catheterizations, percutaneous coronary interventions (PTCA/Stents), peripheral vascular interventions, intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) insertions for patients who are hemodynamically unstable, and temporary pacemaker insertions.
We have the newest state of the art drug eluting stent delivery system EluNir Ridaforolimus eluting coronary stent system from Cordis as well as full time up of PTCA balloons/stents and wires.
We perform pericardiocentesis, impantable loop recorders (ILR) with REVEAL-LINQ (Medtronic), CONFIRM (St Jude Medical) and Biomonitor (Biotronik) systems for arrhythmia detection. We also perform implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) as well as biventricular ICD’s.