Coronary care services
The Coronary Care Unit at Hobart Private Hospital comprise 25 beds on the first floor, for acute cardiac, medical and high dependency surgical care.
All beds can be centrally monitored allowing for continuous cardiac or telemetry monitoring. With the largest private cardiology service in Tasmania, Hobart Private Hospital manages cardiac emergencies and organises admissions to hospital for ongoing care in the dedicated coronary care area.
We partner with the Hobart Heart Centre and other Stakeholders for specialist cardiac services, pacemaker clinic and on-site imaging services for cardiography and angiography.
Our service is supported by a Angiography suite, which performs Angiography, Angioplasty (coronary and peripheral) and insertion of devices such as temporary pacemakers and and electrophysiology procedures.
The Coronary Care Unit provides highly skilled specialist nursing care to the acutely unwell patient.
Our staff have post graduate qualifications in critical care, intensive care, cardiothoracic or coronary care nursing, allowing us to provide the appropriate level of care to meet patient needs.
The Coronary Care Services staff also respond to medical emergencies within the hospital as part of the Medical Response Call Team (METCALL).
Once you have been reviewed by your doctor and cleared for discharge, the nurse caring for you will organise your paperwork, including any follow up appointments and care.
We aim to discharge you home early in the day to enable you to settle back into your home environment.
As this is a Coronary Care Unit, if you are no longer requiring high intensity nursing care, you may be transferred to another ward within Hobart Private Hospital for further care management.
Hobart Private Hospital's patient services or the Nurse Unit Manager of the Coronary Care Unit.
Phone main hospital switch: 03 6214 3000
Angiography
The Angiography Suite at Hobart Private Hospital is equipped with the latest technological equipment available for cardiac and peripheral vessel imaging, diagnostic and interventional cardiac and vascular procedures.
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation
- Right heart catheterisation and pressure measurements
- Interventional cardiac procedures including:
- Coronary angioplasty
- Drug eluting stent insertion
- Direct rotational atherectomy
- Fractional flow reserve measurement
- Temporary pacing wire insertion.
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Intravascular ultrasound
- Permanent pacemaker insertion
- Cardiac defibrillator insertion
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
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Transoesophageal echocardiography
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Electrophysiology studies: o Pulsed Field Ablation o Radiofrequency Ablation
- Implantable loop recorder insertion
A team of dedicated, well trained nursing staff and specialist radiographers supplied by I-Med Radiology Network ably assists our cardiac consultants.
Care of patients pre and post angiography is managed where possible in the adjacent Coronary Care Unit, giving added safety and security to patients undergoing angiography and interventional procedures.
This multidisciplinary approach to care ensures that our patients always get the very best of service when visiting the Hobart Private Hospital Angiography Suite.
With this wide ranging functionality our cardiologists are able to use the best possible equipment to provide the optimum management for patients with cardiovascular disease.