OUR TREATMENTS
Facilities
In-patient care and telemetry areas
In-patient care and telemetry areas consists of 2 floors dedicated to the care of cardiac patients. It comprises more than 45 beds for in-patient care and a day-case treatment facility.
The floors have a combination of hardwire and telemetry monitoring capabilities. Each floor has a central monitor for observation of patient status. Our highly trained and skilled cardiac nursing staff can constantly monitor individual patient’s clinical information. If a cardiac event occurs, such as a change in cardiac rhythm, the sophisticated monitoring system will alert both the individual patient nurse and the unit nurse, who will instigate treatment immediately if required.
Patients are admitted under the care of a Consultant Cardiologist, and remain so until the end of their stay.
Our international status as a provider of medical and nursing facilities enables us to recruit from a diverse range of countries across the world. This diversity also reflects our patients, and this is just one reason why the Wellington hospital is an excellent choice for cardiac treatments.
Theatres
The Wellington Hospital has three dedicated cardiac theatres with a specialist team of staff in attendance. Our theatres are staffed with an international team of scrub and anaesthetic nurses, perfusionists and operating department assistants and persons with extensive experience in cardiac surgery.
We are proud to offer in addition to the normal requirements for cardiac surgery (such as Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump therapy) additional techniques and services that benefit our patients, such as blood and cell-saving and minimal invasive surgery techniques.
Our surgeons are further more supported by state of the art diagnostic and imaging facilities to aid them in their surgery including point-of-care coagulation analysis.
Intensive Care
The Wellington Intensive Care Units (ICU) has an international reputation for excellence in nursing and medical care, with many countries worldwide referring patients for various treatments.
The unit boasts an international workforce, reflecting the diversity of patients admitted. Each patient is comprehensively monitored at the bedside by their own dedicated one to one nurse. In addition to this, each patient’s clinical information is also monitored and analysed centrally by the nurse in charge.
The proximity of the unit near to the operating theatres means that any patient requiring emergency surgery can be transferred quickly and efficiently with minimal delay.
The Intensive Care Unit uses state of the monitoring equipment in order to comprehensively record detailed clinical information regarding the patients’ condition. Any changes result in bedside alarms to alert the bedside nurse, and also to the central monitoring station where the nurse in charge can view all of the patient’s information.
Medical care is provided by 24 hour consultant intensivist cover in addition to Consultant anaesthetist and Consultant surgeon cover. The unit also boasts 24 hour on site medical cover provided by Specialist Registrars.
Cardiac Catheritisation Laboratories
The Wellington Hospital has recently undergone extensive refurbishment of our cardiac catheterisation laboratories and can now offer our patients the services of three technologically advanced catheter laboratories. One of these is dedicated for our Cardiologists who specialize in electrophysiology and ablation therapies.
Our team of highly qualified and experienced radiographers, nurses and technicians support an internationally renowned team of specialist Cardiologists in providing quality diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for our patients.
We also offer a variety of outpatient diagnostic services to patients referred by GP’s or consultants including ECG and 24-hour tape analysis, Pacemaker checks and echocardiography.