Cardiology

Clinics

Specialist outpatient clinics operate five days a week for cardiac conditions such as:

• ischaemic heart disease
• coronary artery disease
• arrhythmias
• pacemaker clinics
• Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic
• PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) / ASD (Atrial Septal Defect)
• renal denervation procedure for resistant hypertension.

RPH also provides:

• inpatient and outpatient transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiograms
• Holter monitoring
• ECGs (electrocardiograms)
• cardiac stress testing.

Catheter laboratory (cathlab)

Procedures in the cardiac catheter laboratory, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, include:

• angiograms
• angioplasty
• pacemaker implantation
• cardioverter defibrillator implantation
• catheter ablation of arrhythmia
• electrophysiology studies
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
• renal denervation
• upright tilt table testing
• DC cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.