The Heart Centre

This Centre's highly experienced doctors have access to state-of-the-art equipment to ensure that an accurate diagnosis is made, and effective treatment is prescribed. Diagnostic tests, treatments and services available at the Centre include:

Electrocardiogram (EKG):

This test is an electrical recording of the heart and is used in the investigation of heart disease.

Exercise Stress Test:

This is a general screening tool to test the effect of exercise on your heart. It can show if the blood supply is reduced in the arteries that supply the heart or if you have an abnormal heart rhythm.

Echocardiography:

It is a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of the heart. It can be quite helpful in establishing a specific diagnosis and estimating the severity of various heart diseases.

Tilt Table Testing:

This test is designed to evaluate how your body regulates blood pressure in response to some very simple stresses. It is a procedure that is used to diagnose a common cause of fainting.

Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) Vascular Screening:

It is a new Technology non-invasive, easily applied, only checking your EKG and blood pressure at arms and legs, it can tell the efficiency of blood circulation system, it can tell whether the arteries are clogged and perhaps leading to a fatal heart-attack or stroke in the future.

Services:

 
Chest Pain Pathway:

Is an emergency rapid response team who are ready to reach patients by ambulance. There, emergency physicians immediately begin the process of evaluating and diagnosing the cause of the chest pain. Patients who have suffered a heart attack is immediately admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and our cardiologists will take care them. Our care for some patients may include an angioplasty procedure and coronary bypass surgery.

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