Clinical service
Cardiology & Cardiac Sciences
The cardiac unit treats emergency chest pain and planned heart disease in the same corridor, so a patient who arrives at night can be handed to the same consultant the next morning.
We run a 24-hour chest-pain pathway from the Emergency floor to the catheter laboratory. Stabilisation, ECG, and first medicines start before paperwork is finished.
Planned work includes angiography, angioplasty, pacemaker checks, heart-failure titration, and hypertension clinics. Reports stay on the patient record so the outpatient visit is not a guessing game.
Families receive a written plan at discharge: medicines, red-flag symptoms, and the date of the next review. The booking desk can schedule that review before you leave the floor.
When to come
- Pressure, tightness, or pain in the chest, jaw, or left arm
- Breathlessness on a familiar flight of stairs
- Irregular pulse, fainting, or swelling of the ankles
- A known heart condition that needs medicine review
What we offer
- ECG, echocardiography, treadmill testing
- Coronary angiography and angioplasty
- Pacemaker and device clinic
- Heart-failure and lipid clinics
Consultants in this department
