Consultant physicians working with patients - Royal College of ...
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2 Specialties Cardiovascular medicineTable 1 Service location and main activitiesService locationPrimary cardiaccareCommunitycardiologySecondarycardiac careTertiary cardiaccareMain activitiesPrimary and secondary preventionMonitoring and management <strong>of</strong>:hypertension (eg ambulatory blood pressure)hyperlipidaemiadiabetesrenal conditions.Resting ECG testsMonitoring and management <strong>of</strong> stable chronic diseases, eg coronary heart disease, heart failureSome investigation and management <strong>of</strong> heart failure (community echo and blood tests)Ambulatory monitoring <strong>of</strong> blood pressure and ECGCardiac rehabilitationEmergency care <strong>of</strong>:acute chest paincollapseacute breathlessness suspected to be cardiac in originacute coronary conditions (heart attack)acute arrhythmiasacute heart failureheart infections (endocarditis)diseases <strong>of</strong> the heart muscleacute pericardial conditions.Clinical management <strong>of</strong> cardiac care unitsIn<strong>patients</strong> <strong>with</strong> cardiac conditionsCardiac day cases for investigation or treatmentInvestigation <strong>of</strong> suspected cardiac symptoms – in rapid-access chest pain clinics, and newer one-stop clinics forheart failure, arrhythmiasFollow-up <strong>of</strong> <strong>patients</strong> <strong>with</strong> certain valve disorders, cardiomyopathies, pericardial conditions and arrhythmiasFollow-up <strong>of</strong> some <strong>patients</strong> <strong>with</strong> congenital heart diseaseGeneral outpatient clinicsEchocardiography studies, transthoracic, transoesophageal and stress exercise ECG investigationsNuclear cardiology studies, some CT and MRIAmbulatory analyses <strong>of</strong> ECG and blood pressureInvestigations <strong>of</strong> autonomic function, eg tilt-table testingDiagnostic cardiac catheterisation and angiographySome percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)Implantation <strong>of</strong> temporary pacemakersImplantation, renewal and follow-up <strong>of</strong> permanent pacemakers including complex devices, eg CRTSome electrophysiological studies and routine ablationImplantable ECG loop recordersImplantation and renewal <strong>of</strong> intracardiac/subcutaneous defibrillatorsCardiac rehabilitationAll secondary care services for their local population, plus:Emergency PPCI for STEMIComplex interventions:percutaneous closure <strong>of</strong> PFOpercutaneous closure <strong>of</strong> ASDsnon-surgical reduction <strong>of</strong> myocardial septumpercutaneous laser revascularisation for refractory anginacarotid artery stent placement for carotid stenosispercutaneous occlusion <strong>of</strong> left atrial appendagepercutaneous mitral valvuloplastypercutaneous aortic valvuloplasty and aortic valve replacementpercutaneous closure <strong>of</strong> acquired VSD.(continued)C○ <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Physicians 2013 49