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Patient Information Leaflets
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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 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 device generator replacement
Explains what is involved in replacing a cardiac device generator
Cardioversion
Answers some questions you may have about your direct current cardioversion
Catheter ablation for cardiac arrrythmias
Explains what having catheter ablation for cardiac arrythmias entails and what you can expect before, during and after the procedure
Contrast echocardiogram
What to expect during this heart test
Diagnostic Coronary (DC) Angiography
Outlines information and advice you should follow to help understand this procedure for patients on the DC Angiography waiting list
Dobutamine stress echocardiogram
What to expect during this heart test
Exercise stress echocardiogram for angina
What to expect during this heart test
Exercise stress echocardiogram for valve / cardiomyopathy
What to expect during this heart test
Implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implant
Explains what having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator entails and how it may affect your daily life
Insertable cardiac monitor (Medtronic LINQ device)
Explains what an ICM does and how it is inserted
Insertable cardiac monitor removal
What to expect when you come into hospital to have your ICM removed
Jim Shahi Unit - information for escalation patients
Information for patients who have been moved to the unit and their friends, relatives and carers