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Cardiology

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Staff

3 Consultants:
  • Rangasamy Muthusamy: Cardiologist and General Physician, Clinical Lead for Cardiology
  • Simon Smith: Cardiologist and General Physician with special interest in Heart Failure and Devices
  • Tom Mwambingu: Cardiologist and General Physician with special interest in Cardiac Imaging

1 Associate Specialist:  Abdul Jahangir
1 GP with Special Interest in Cardiology: Leonard Jacob
1 Specialist Registrar
1 Core Trainee
1 VTS Trainee
1 Foundation Doctor

Cardiology Nurse Specialists
Cardiac Technicians and Physiologists
Cardiac Echosonographers
Research Nurses


Services

Inpatient Care
  • Cardiology and general medical care for inpatients on 8 bed Coronary Care Unit and 16 beds on Ward A1.  
  • There is a consultant led daily ward round on CCU at 8am and A1 at 9am.

Outpatient Clinics
  • 10 General cardiology outpatient clinics per week
  • 3 Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics per week
  • 1 Specialist arrhythmia clinic per week
  • Daily face to face and virtual pacemaker follow-up clinics

Practical Cardiology
  • Daily transthoracic echocardiography lists
  • Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and permanent pacemaker lists 4 days per week
  • Weekly transoesophageal echocardiography list
  • Twice weekly Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
  • Weekly Coronary CT and cardiac MR imaging
  • Weekly elective DC Cardioversion list
  • Full non-invasive outpatient cardiac diagnostics including Holter monitoring, exercise testing and Tilt Table Tests

Further opportunities during your placement
  • Fortnightly MDT with interventional cardiologist and cardiac surgeon from Sheffield
  • Specialist Heart Failure and Cardiac Devices MDT
  • Active and busy research unit lead by Dr Muthusamy
  • Complex pacing and internal cardioverter defibrillator implantation fortnightly at Sheffield by Dr Smith
  • Timetabled weekly teaching by Dr Smith and Dr Mwambingu

We have a busy Department with every opportunity for you to enhance your cardiology knowledge and application. You will see the range of cardiac investigations and procedures that can be performed and become more confident in numerous aspects of cardiology including coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrythmias, ecg interpretation, heart murmurs and cardiovascular therapeutics.
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