Cardiology

We offer a comprehensive cardiology service for adults, providing diagnosis and treatment for a range of heart conditions.

You can be referred through by your GP or nurse or by staff at our Emergency Departments.

What we can help you with

The department treats a wide variety of conditions in adults, common ones including:

• Heart attack (acute myocardial infarction)
• Acute coronary syndromes
• Heart failure
• Atrial fibrillation / flutter
• Supra ventricular tachycardia
• Ventricular Arrhythmias
• AV nodal disease
• Syncope and pre-syncope – fainting and light-headedness
• Pericardial effusion / tamponades - collection of fluid around the heart
• Endocarditis - a rare heart infection
• Myocarditis / pericarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle
• Cardiomyopathy - heart muscle disease
  
  

Who we can help

All adults who come into the hospital via their GP or emergency routes.  

Services available

• Inpatient and outpatient cardiology
• Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic (RACPC)
• Adult congenital heart disease clinic, 
• Rapid Access Arrhythmia Clinic (RAAC)
• Hypertension clinic
• Complex device clinic
• DC cardioversion
• Angiography, pacing and complex devices
• Acute coronary syndrome service and inpatient heart failure service
• Cardiac lab: all diagnostic testing including interventional procedures (stents), pacing, complex devices and reveal devices
• Inpatient and outpatient exercise treadmill testing (ETT)
• Echocardiography - a painless study using ultrasonic waves to visualise your heart
• 24-hour ECG monitoring and blood pressure monitoring
• Patient activated monitoring (PAM)
• Home monitoring for ICD patients
• Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
• ICD support group led by the arrhythmia care co-ordinator

We offer a full range of cardiac rehabilitation services to people recovering from a heart attack, heart surgery or angioplasty.

After discharge, we will invite you to a ‘lifestyle day’ where you’ll have an chance to meet other people with heart problems and get advice dieticians, pharmacists, physiotherapist and others.