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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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
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
Cardiac Care Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
Information about the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
Cardiac device generator replacement
Explains what is involved in replacing a cardiac device generator
Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme
Explains programme to promote awareness of exercise requirement and to encourage you to change and adapt your lifestyle, as a way of managing your heart condition or following heart surgery
Implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implant
Explains what having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator entails and how it may affect your daily life
Insertable cardiac monitor removal
What to expect when you come into hospital to have your ICM removed
Lead revision
Explains what is involved in having a lead revision for your cardiac device
Pacemaker implant
Explains what having a pacemaker implanted entails and how it may affect your daily life
Percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery chronic total occlusion (CTO)
What happens during PCI treatment for coronary artery chronic total occlusion (CTO)
Relaxation
Explains how relaxation can help you manage your heart condition
Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) implant
What having an S-ICD entails and how it may affect your daily life