Eastern Heart Clinic has hosted what has now become the largest annual gathering of cardiac catheter lab professionals in the world. More than 800 catheter lab professionals – including interventional cardiologists, anaesthetists, radiographers, cardiac nurses...
Did you know that heart attacks cause almost one in 20 deaths in Australia, and men are twice as likely to die from the disease than women? A heart attack occurs when a coronary artery (which supplies blood to the heart muscle) suddenly becomes blocked. It’s caused by...
Meet Dr Sze-Yuan Ooi, he’s an interventional cardiologist at Eastern Heart Clinic. He explains how the clinic manages the process of tracking patient satisfaction and outcomes from patients admitted to the clinic for a heart procedure. He says Eastern Heart...
Too many heart attack patients hesitate to call a potentially life-saving ambulance because they underestimate the severity of their symptoms, according to research undertaken by our sister site Sutherland Heart Clinic. The 18-month study of 100 people in the southern...
Coronary artery stent surgery has become so safe that many interventional cardiologists might go their whole career without experiencing a complication, according to a senior interventional cardiologist. Dr Mark Pitney says with advanced technology, expertise and...
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