Cardiac Services – Getting to the heart of the matter!

Cardiology at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital encompasses a range of services from diagnosis to rehabilitation. Each year approximately 4500 tests are performed providing valuable information to aid in diagnosing heart disease of patients in our community. State-of-the-art diagnostic instruments are used by BMH cardiologists in consultation with BMH family practitioners and internists. All stress tests are directly supervised by cardiologists Burton Tepfer, MD or Michael Cohan, DO.

BMH diagnostic tools include:

Cardiac Stress Tests

• Nuclear Cardiac Stress test
• Stress Echocardiogram
• Pharmacologic Cardiac Stress test (Persantine)
• Routine Cardiac Stress test

Echocardiography

• Transthoracic Echocardiogram

Arryhythmia monitoring

• Holter Monitor
• Looping monitor
• Post event monitor

Electrocardiogram (EKG)

Cardiac Rehabilitation at BMH

Cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive 12-week outpatient program of risk factor modification, education, and exercise specially designed for people recovering from heart attacks, heart surgery, angioplasty, having stents put in place, or continued angina symptom. (More info about Cardiac Rehabilitation at BMH.)

Cardiologists Michael Cohan, DO, and Burton Tepfer, MD, offer their expertise to heart patients by diagnosing the problem and then prescribing the treatment which can range from medication, exercise, dietary changes to cardiac catheterizations. Patients needing cardiac catheterizations are referred by Drs. Cohan and Tepfer to our tertiary medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for those procedures. (Click here for more information on BMH cardiologists Michael Cohan, DO, and Burton Tepfer, MD.)

In the spring and fall, the pediatric cardiologist from UVM/Fletcher Allen Health Care visits BMH. Appointments for the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic can be made by calling 802-847-8950. (More information about Pediatric Cardiologist at BMH.)