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- [Byron] I didn't have any heart attack signs at all.

I just felt nauseous and I went and I threw up in the
sink and I told my wife then that we need to go

to the hospital.

- [Dr. Rains] So when Mr. Hodge got to our cath
lab and we proceeded with our normal cardiac

catheterization where we take pictures of his
heart's arteries, we found severe blockages

in really all of the arteries that
supply the heart with blood.

And very quickly I could identify that his
disease was surgical coronary artery disease.

I first called our surgeon, Dr. Ward,
who came very quickly to the cath lab.

- [Dr. Ward] The best way that we can help
unload the heart and assist its function is

to place a small pump through his groin that
sits inside the heart called an Impella CP,

which Dr. Rains placed in the cath lab.

- It allowed him to survive and improve over the next
couple of days that allowed him to go have open heart

bypass surgery with Dr. Ward.

- Dr. Rains and I and the cardiology team work together
all the time and we know that patient outcomes are

best when we put our heads together,
work as a team to come up with the best plan

for each patient.

And Mr. Hodge, he definitely benefited hugely
from having a multidisciplinary approach.

- All the people, they were so kind to me.
They were just real good people.

The doctors though, they were great.

They were friendly, made me feel like they
were friends instead of just my doctors.

I wouldn't go anywhere
else but Baptist Health, Paducah.

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