Industrial action 27 June to 2 July 2024 - unless we contact you, please attend any appointments as planned.
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Patient Information Leaflets
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100Kcal boosters - Heart healthy options
Dietary advice for those struggling with a poor appetite or who have lost weight recently - heart healthy version
Advice following a device generator change
Important information and advice following a generator change of your cardiac device
Advice following a pacemaker / CRTP implant
Important information and advice about recovering from your pacemaker or cardiac resynchronisation therapy pacemaker (CRTP) implant procedure and living safely with a pacemaker
Advice following an S-ICD implant
Important information and advice about recovering from an implant procedure and living safely with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) implant
Advice following an ICD or CRTD device implant
Important information and advice about recovering from an implant procedure and living safely with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
Advice following an insertable cardiac monitor implant
Important information and advice following your procedure to have an insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) implanted
After a heart attack
Guidelines and advice to aid your recovery following a heart attack
After your angiogram
Information and advice you should follow to help speed up your recovery following a coronary angiogram, during which a thin catheter (tube) was inserted into an artery
Ambulatory Heart Function Unit
Explains intravenous diuretic treatment carried out in the Ambulatory Heart Function Unit (formerly the Heart Failure Lounge)
Angioplasty aftercare
Advice following an angioplasty to widen blocked/narrowed arteries in the heart with a balloon
Angioplasty aftercare advice
Advice following an angioplasty to widen blocked/narrowed arteries with a balloon
Angioplasty and stent
Answers some questions you may have about having an angioplasty and stent on the Jim Shahi Unit
Angioplasty and stent (CCU inpatients)
Answers some questions you may have about having an angioplasty and stent
Aortic stenosis and balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV)
Explains how a balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) is used to treat aortic stenosis
Atrial flutter ablation
What having ablation to correct an atrial flutter entails and what you can expect before, during and after the procedure
AV node ablation
What having ablation to control atrial fibrillation entails and what you can expect before, during and after the procedure
Bubble echocardiogram
What to expect during this heart test
Cardiac Care Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
Information about the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
Cardiac CT scan (CTCA)
Information on having a heart CT / computerised tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) scan
Cardiac device generator replacement
Explains what is involved in replacing a cardiac device generator