The Inaugural Cardiac Catheter Lab Team. Front row from left to right, nurses Charmaine Flynn, Jen Harkins.
Middle row, nurse Flic Stronach, MRT Haylee Van Der Salm, physiologist Barbara Barker and nurses Heather Hockings and Jennie Muir.
Back row, physiologist Karl Hunter, nurse CNM Jason Money, cardiologists KL Chow and Barry Kneale.
New Year Cardiac Catheter Lab Launch
By Charge Nurse Manager- Cardiac Cath Lab,
Jason Money.
The Lab will be staffed by an experienced team of nurses, MRT's
and Physiologists and includes a pre and post procedure area.
Patients will no longer go through the Medical Day Stay Unit.
Cardiac patients are set to benefit from a
new Cardiac Catheter Lab due to open
January 16th.
BOPDHB currently performs more than 650 diagnostic Cardiac
Catheters, 230 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions PCI
(interventional stents) and 220 Implantable devices (Pacemakers,
ICD's) each year.
The launch of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory is part of
the Cardiac Services Building 50 development which includes a
Having a dedicated Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory for
new Clinical Physiology area where Echo, Treadmill, ECG and
diagnostic and interventional services will also take pressure off
consultations will be carried out.
Radiology services leading to more timely access for patients
needing acute and elective procedures.
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