Send Feedback

Print

Mobile

 Back

CDHB

Cardiology Department Information

Main Office

• 2^nd Floor, Parkside, 81138, fax 81415

Inpatient Services

• Five inpatient teams on Wards 12, 14, & CCU

Cardiologists

• Dr Sally Aldous, Dr James Blake, Dr Paul Bridgman, Dr Ian Crozier, Dr Matt Daly, Assoc Prof John Elliott, Dr John Lainchbury, Dr Dougal McClean, Dr Iain Melton, Dr Aniket Puri, Dr David Smyth, Assoc Prof Richard Troughton.

Consultation and On-call Service

24 hours a day, seven days a week. Contact Cardiology Registrar or Consultant on call through the operator on 364 0640. For consults, page on-call Registrar and then fax the referral to 364 1137 (or 81137).

Primary Care Liaison

• Dr Joan Leighton (GP).

Outpatient Consultations

• Clerk, 81138

Consultation Guidelines

Chest pain, dyspnoea, documented angina, myocardial infarction, heart failure, valvular heart disease, arrhythmias, syncope, congenital heart disease. Please refer hypertension problems to General Medicine.

Other Services

• Cardiac catheters, coronary angioplasty, aortic valvuloplasty, trans-arterial aortic valve implantation, structural heart interventions (e.g., patent foramen ovale, patent ductus arteriosus), stress echo, trans-oesophageal echo, electrophysiology studies, radiofrequency ablation for tachyarrhythmia, pacemaker/defibrillator implantation
• Cardiology Day Ward, 81071, fax 81127
• Echocardiography Laboratory, fax 81449
• Tilt Table Testing, fax 81025
• ECG Department, fax 80681

  12 lead ECG, exercise tests, Holter monitor tests

• Coronary Care Unit, 81099, fax 81128
• Education & Rehabilitation Service, 81093, pager 8262
• Cardioendocrine Research Group, 81116 (clinical research, basic research)
• Cardiology Research Unit, 81096 (clinical research studies)

Topic Code: 2837