CARDIAC CARE

World leaders in cardiac care, working together

Indus Heart cardiac care

The heart

Your heart beats every second – as it has done, 100,000 times a day, since before you were born. Each beat is an elaborate electrical sequence. Current pulses from node to node, through pathways of fibres, telling the four chambers of your heart when to contract and expand. In doing so they pump five litres of blood around your body, supplying your cells with the oxygen they need to stay alive.

  • World-leading cardiologists and cardiac surgeons
  • The latest diagnostic technology
  • Open heart, minimal access and robotic surgery
  • Pioneering procedures including PEARS
  • Clinical nurse specialists, dedicated to each field of cardiology and cardiac surgery
  • The only private unit providing lifelong care to patients with congenital heart disease
  • Support to predict and prevent heart problems
  • Three cardiac centres of excellence — The Harley Street Clinic, London Bridge Hospital and The Wellington Hospital
  • Consultant-led teams of sub-specialists from each area of cardiac care
  • Minimally invasive procedures including TAVI and Mitra-Clip
  • Intensive care units in every hospital
  • The full range of paediatric and adult care
  • Genetic testing and treatment for inherited cardiac diseases

Meet some of the foremost minds in medicine

Our cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are some of the foremost minds in medicine — from the first person to perform non-contact mapping to treat heart arrhythmia, to the professor who advises the government on preventing heart disease. Working together across our hospitals, our consultants are pioneering new procedures and perfecting others. Their work doesn’t just change patients’ lives today. It changes lives for generations to come.

Specialising in every aspect of cardiac care

Every part of the heart is a branch of science in of itself. To achieve the depth of understanding and experience they need, consultants need to sub-specialise — in aortic vascular surgery, for example, or paediatric cardiac surgery. Sub-specialising means our consultants perform their specialist procedures in greater volume than they would if they were a general heart doctor. The more they perform these procedures, the better the outcome for patients. This sub-specialism goes even further than our consultants. Our scrub nurses sub-specialise in assisting minimal access valve repairs, for instance, and our imaging technicians in cardiac MRIs and cardiac CT.

The world’s leading heart doctors — in one room

Our consultants and clinicians meet regularly to discuss complex patient cases. In a multi-disciplinary team meeting, they’ll scrutinise evidence, review images and debate diagnosis and treatment. Every opinion is heard and nobody defers to any one person. Together they channel decades of experience, gained treating thousands of patients, into making the best decision for every individual.

Outstanding facilities, teams and equipment

The complex medicine our consultants perform is only possible with the best facilities, teams and equipment. From the latest robotic technology, to bedside medicine cabinets that are opened with a doctor’s fingerprint, we have everything we need to care for our patients — including intensive care units in every hospital. It’s why so many leading cardiologists and cardiac surgeons choose to practice at our hospitals.

The latest technology

Our imaging team use the latest diagnostic equipment, like Dual Energy CT scanners, which show the heart in precise detail. Consultants plan procedures using computer modelling technology to predict the best place to fit a device for each individual patient. 3D mapping systems allow our consultants to correct arrhythmias with zero radiation.

Making every possible option available

Cardiac medicine is always advancing — there are new investigations, techniques and treatments. While traditional open heart surgery is still the right option for many patients, our consultants are pioneering techniques that can achieve the same outcome with less trauma to the body. If your consultant decides that minimal access or minimally invasive procedures are appropriate for you, these latest techniques are available in our hospitals..

Our consultants perform huge volumes of procedures and treatments across our three hospitals. Specialist procedures are performed in each hospital, from the latest minimally invasive imaging to life-changing surgery. Our cardiac department brings together these three sites, outpatient facilities, and our consultants, nurses, teams and technology. It’s all these elements combined that allow us to deliver outstanding care.