The Cardiology service includes the Coronary Care and Step-down Unit, the Cardiac Catheter Laboratories, a Cardiology ward, a Cardiology day ward, and the non-invasive and diagnostic Cardiology service.
Cardiology provides care to emergency and elective patients with:
- Heart arrhythmias
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Heart failure
- Valvular heart disease
- Genetic heart disease
Clinical initiatives
- Major centre for arrhythmia treatment, research and training including complex electrophysiology procedures and atrial fibrillation ablation, and complex 3D mapping
- Major adult congenital cardiac service run conjointly with The Royal Children's Hospital including structural intervention, arrhythmia and cardiac surgery service
- 24-hour, 7 day a week acute myocardial infarction service with direct angioplasty and management of acute coronary syndrome
- The heart failure service including outpatient rehabilitation: 'the big-hearted people'
- Large structural cardiac intervention program including TAVI and adult congenital program
- Combined cardiac pregnancy service with The Royal Women's Hospital
- Cardiac genetics service run in combination with Genetic Medicine
Specialised services
Quaternary cardiac arrhythmia service
- rapid access arrhythmia clinic
- complex electrophysiology and ablation procedure
- training of Electrophysiologists for Australia and overseas (predominantly UK)
- PhD fellowship research program
Adult congenital cardiac service
- congenital clinic
- full arrhythmia interventional surgical program
Coronary angioplasty
We provide a 24-hour acute coronary angioplasty service for these procedures:
- coronary angiography
- angioplasty and stenting
- electrophysiology
- pacemaker and implantable defibrillator
Outpatient clinics
- Cardiology (includes arrhythmia and valvular heart disease)
- Adult Congenital Cardiac
- Cardiomyopathy (heart failure)
- Coronary Follow-up
- Rapid access arrhythmia
- Pacemaker
- Implantable Defibrillator
- Cardiac pregnancy
- Cardiac genetics
The department run a general cardiac rehabilitation program and a specific cardiomyopathy (heart failure) rehabilitation program
Clinics
| Cardiac Congenital | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | ||
| Cardiac Genetics | City Campus | Familial Cancer Reception, Level 2 Centre | WED |
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| Cardiac Pregnancy Congenital | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre |
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| Cardiology | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | WED |
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| Cardiology Valve Clinic | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | FRI |
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| Cardiomyopathy | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | WED | |
| Coronary Follow Up | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | TUE | |
| Defibrillator | City Campus | Cardiology, Level 2 South East | WED | |
| Pacemaker | City Campus | Cardiology, Level 2 South East | THU | |
| Rapid Access Arrhythmia | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | TUE, WED, FRI | |
| TAVI | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | WED |
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Referrals
We accept GP and specialist referrals for this service.
Referrals are triaged depending on priority. Emergency cases can present to the Emergency & Trauma Service at any time.
To refer a patient, complete and send your referral to Outpatients by fax to (03) 9342 4234.
You can use the following form or a template from your own system:
Referrals should include:
- relevant clinical history for the patient
- the reason for referral
- patient details including address, date of birth and contact phone numbers
- your details and provider number
- the name of the consultant (for Medicare clinics)
- if your patient requires ongoing management, please identify the referral as being "indefinite"
Special referral instructions
GPs can also refer electronically to the arrhythmia clinic via the Melbourne Heart Rhythm website.