Working for Cardiac Physiology

The Cardiac Physiology Clinical Unit has a long history of staff training and supports foundation degree, undergraduate BSc (hons) and postgraduate education and training programmes.

Services we provide include:

• echocardiography
  
• cardiac electrophysiology studies
  
• resting electrocardiography
  
• ambulatory electrocardiography and blood pressure recording
  
• exercise stress testing and rapid access chest pain clinics
  
• support to diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterisation
  
• optimisation of intra-aortic balloon pump circulatory support
  
• implantation of cardiac pacemakers and patients' subsequent follow-up
  
• implantation of cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and patients' subsequent follow-up
  
• implantation and subsequent follow-up of specialist heart rhythm monitoring devices.
  

Nuclear cardiology imaging

Staff working in the Oxford Heart Centre Cardiac Physiology Clinical Unit are involved with an extensive range of both invasive and non-invasive investigative and interventional procedures used in the diagnosis and management of patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease.

Provision of cardiac physiology procedures is a key element in the delivery of care pathways across the primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare sectors.

These include:

• supporting provision of access from primary care
  
• cardiac investigations prior to routine and complex surgery
  
• imaging to determine cause of symptomatic conditions or efficacy of ongoing treatment programmes
  
• responding to out-of-hours cardiac emergencies.
  

These activities support successful delivery of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and the overall quality of cardiac care delivered to our patients.

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