Cardiac Services Unit at The Wellington Hospital: Cardiac surgery in London

Visit: http://www.thewellingtoncardiacservices.com/

The Wellington Hospital has extensive cardiac facilities including cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery and cardiac rhythm management. With several leading cardiac surgeons and cardiologists, a highly skilled team of radiographers, cardiac technicians and nurses, the hospital has one of the largest private cardiology and cardiac surgical programmes in Europe.

The Unit offers both intensive care and coronary care beds, three dedicated theatres and three cardiac catheterisation laboratories, helping to make the department a leader in its field with services ranging from ultrasound monitoring to coronary angioplasty, pacemaker implanting and coronary artery bypass grafting, including minimal invasive techniques.

The team

The WellingtonHospital has long had an international reputation for the high standard of cardiac medicine delivered by its consultants, many of whom also have senior positions in London’s teaching hospitals and are at the peak of their careers.

One of the country's biggest teams of cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, cardiac radiologists and specialist nursing staff, is supported by the most modern diagnostic and imaging departments to be found anywhere in the UK.

Treatment of heart problems

Treatments can be split into 3 groups: cardiology, cardiac surgery and rhythm management:

Cardiology

• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) and Stents
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
• Pacemakers
• Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure (ASD)
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• External Counter Pulsation (ECP)

Cardiac surgery

• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG) & Cardio-pulmonary Bypass (CPB)
• Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (OPCABG)
• Valve Replacement and Repair
• Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB)

Cardiac rhythm management

• Cardiac Arrhythmias
• Catheter ablation therapy
• Atrial flutter
• Supraventicular tachycardias
• Atrial fibrillation
• Unusual cardiac arrhythmias
• Heart failure
• Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT) pacemakers
• Implantable defibrillators (ICD)

Diagnostics

Patients at The Wellington Cardiac Services Unit have the benefit of the most up to date and comprehensive range of diagnostic and imaging technology available in the independent sector today:

• Angiography

• Echocardiogram
• 24 hour ECG
• Stress echocardiography
• Permanent pacemaker checks
• 64 slice CT

Contact details

The Cardiac Services Unit at The Wellington Hospital now have a dedicated Heartline: 020 7483 5000

The Cardiac Services Unit

The Wellington Hospital
Wellington Place
St. Johns Wood
London NW8 9LE

Tel: 020 7483 5000

Email: wellington.enquiryhelpline@hcahealthcare.co.uk

Web:  www.thewellingtoncardiacservices.com

          www.thewellingtonhospital.com

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