Cardiology Services

Ashford Hospital is available to assess any acute chest pain or cardiac related symptoms via our Cardiac Emergency Centre, available 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Cardiac Emergency Centre services include:

• Immediate assessment and diagnosis
• Cardiologist on call 24/7
• Cardiac Medical Officer rostered on-site 24/7
• Acute intervention including angiography, angioplasty, cardiac rhythm stabilisation and pacemaker insertion 24/7

No referral for treatment is required

The Cardiac Emergency Centre is available to assess symptoms including:

• Chest pain
• Tightness / Squeezing
• Palpitations
• Pressure
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness / Syncope

If you are experiencing these symptoms, please call an ambulance on ‘000’ and ask for Ashford Hospital.

For any Cardiac Emergency Centre enquiries please phone 08 8375 5205

Ashford Hospital has two state of the art angiography labs. This technology, together with skilled medical and nursing staff provides 24-hour care for patients requiring cardiac interventions.

The services we provide include:

• Automatic Defibrillator Implantation
• Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Supraventricular Tachycardia
• Cardioversion
• Coronary Angiography
• Coronary Angioplasty, Rotablation and Stenting
• Electrophysiological Studies
• Myocardial biopsy
• Pacemakers
• Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure
• Percutaneous Atrial Septal Defect Closure
• Right Heart Catheterisation (RHC)
• Three-Dimensional Mapping of Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
• Valvuloplasty
• Vascular procedures

Cardiac Services is our dedicated 55 bed ward, specifically designed to provide highly specialised care to patients with acute cardiac illnesses or pre and post cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery and vascular procedures.

The facilities include state of the art cardiac and telemetry monitoring systems.

The staff are trained to provide high level cardiac care, and are able to assist your specialist with procedures including:

• Cardioversion
• Electrocardiogram
• Pericardiocentesis
• Transoesophageal Echocardiogram
• Thoracic interventions
• Exercise Stress Testing (EST) and Exercise Stress Echocardiogram (ESE)
• Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram (DSE)
• Access to Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT

Cardiac Services is open for admission 24 hours per day, seven days per week via our Cardiac Emergency Centre

Ashford Hospital has a dedicated cardiac operating theatre with state of the art facilities and a highly skilled theatre team including leading cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac anaesthetists, perfusionists and nursing staff.

All cardiothoracic surgery procedures can be undertaken at Ashford Hospital including:

• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
• Aortic Valve Replacement
• Mitral Valve Repair or Replacement
• Aortic Root Replacement
• Video Assisted Thoracotomy

Flinders Private Hospital provides an emergency service for all cardiac related symptoms via our Cardiac Emergency Centre 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The service is available to all our private patients and the ambulance can transfer you to our CEC via the Flinders Medical Centre Emergency Department direct access corridor through to Flinders Private Hospital.

Cardiac Emergency Centre Provides:

• Immediate assessment and diagnosis
• 24/7 Cardiologist on call
• 24/7 Cardiac Medical Officer rostered on-site
• 24/7 Acute intervention, including angiography, angioplasty, cardiac rhythm stabilisation and pacemaker insertion 24/7
• No referral required

The Cardiac Emergency Centre is available to assess symptoms including:

• Chest pain
• Tightness
• Palpitations
• Pressure
• Squeezing
• Shortness of breath

If you are experiencing these symptoms please call triple zero (000) for an ambulance and ask for Flinders Private Hospital, Cardiac Emergency Centre.

For any Emergency CEC enquiries, please phone 08 8275 3347.

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Flinders Private Hospital has three angiography suites whichprovide acute interventional and electrophysiological cardiac procedures forboth public and private patients, working collaboratively with Flinders MedicalCentre. This unique relationship provides a service boasting state-of-the-artfacilities and equipment with a team of Specialists who are internationallyrenowned for their ground breaking research and expertise in cardiac care.

The services we provide include:

• Internal Cardiac Defibrillator
• Cardiac Ablation Cardioversion
• Coronary Angiography
• Coronary Angioplasty, Rotablation and Stenting
• Electrophysiological Studies
• Mitral clips
• Myocardial biopsy
• Pacemakers
• Patent Foramen Ovale closure (PFO)
• Percutaneous Atrial Septal Defect Closure
• Right Heart Catheterisation (RHC)
• Three-Dimensional Mapping of Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
• Valvuloplasty

Our conveniently located Cardiac Emergency Centre is ready to accept all private patients with any acute chest pain or cardiac related conditions with a Cardiologist on call 24/7. If required, the easy access to an angiography suite ensures no time is wasted in getting the acute interventional care our patients might need.

Flinders Private Hospital has two cardiothoracic operating theatres which provides surgical management of a variety of different cardiovascular and thoracic conditions including:

• Adult congenital heart conditions
• Benign and malignant lung and other chest disease
• Ischaemic heart disease
• Valvular disease (both valve replacement and valve repair)

Flinders Private Hospital works collaboratively with the public hospital, Flinders Medical Centre and we perform both cardiac and thoracic procedures for public and private patients in our theatres.

All cardiothoracic surgery procedures are performed at Flinders Private Hospital including:

• Aortic Root Replacement
• Aortic Valve Replacement
• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
• Mitral Valve Repair or Replacement
• Video Assisted Thoracotomy

Flinders Private Hospital has a six bed Coronary Care Unit. Each private room is equipped with the latest technology in cardiac monitoring.

Dedicated cardiac nursing staff work with our Cardiologists to provide the highest level of cardiac care. The team will assist your Cardiologist with procedures including:

• Cardioversion
• Electrocardiogram
• Pericardiocentesis
• Thoracic interventions
• Transoesphagoeal Echocardiogram
• Computed Tomography Coronary Angiogram (CTCA)

Our Cardiac Surgical Ward has 30 private rooms with ensuites and are equipped with telemetry monitoring systems which provide 24 hour cardiac monitoring for our patients whilst allowing them to move around freely in their rooms.