Cardiac Centre Clinics |
B59
|
Heart Failure Service
Heart Failure Service
About Us
The Specialist Heart Failure Team are involved in the care of heart failure patients within the hospital setting, providing inpatient and outpatient care.
Our role includes:
- Confirm diagnosis
- Provide education to patients
- Initiate and titrate evidence based treatments
- Organising relevant investigations
- Implementing interventional treatments, including specialised pacemakers & defibrillators
- Symptom monitoring
- Emotional support
- Referral to appropriate community teams (BaNES and Wiltshire)
- Provide support and advice to colleagues/clinicians
- Teaching and education to health care professionals
- Involvement in advance care planning (Dorothy House referrals)
Ambulatory Furosemide service for Heart Failure patients
The Heart Failure nurses run an ambulatory service, where intravenous Furosemide can be administered as a day case.
The patient will need be known to the RUH, BaNES or Wiltshire community Heart Failure services AND have a confirmed diagnosis of heart failure.
The service is delivered on the Cardiac Day Case Unit (CDCU), B56. The Heart Failure nurses will clinically assess the patient face to face on the unit, prescribe the required Furosemide and the infusion will be administered by the nursing team based on the unit.
Please contact:
Tel: 01225 525587
Bleep: # 7717
Or
Email: ruh-tr.heartfailure@nhs.net
Referral Pathway
Please follow the link below, to access the criteria for new referrals from primary care.
Primary Care Heart Failure Diagnostic Pathway in Adults (PATH-012)
Please refer to the Heart Failure clinic via NHS e-referral services
The Specialist Heart Failure team
Our specialist team consists of Consultants, Specialist nurses and administrative staff.
From left to right: Cathy Samios (Heart failure specialist nurse HFSN) Emily Gibson (HFSN), Dr Tania Pawade (Heart failure consultant), Dr Oliver Watkinson (Heart failure consultant), Sophie Loud (HFSN), Cath Fee (HFSN)
Consultants:
- Dr Oliver Watkinson
- Dr Tanya Pawade
- Dr Jacob Easaw
Specialist nursing team:
- Catherine Fee
- Sophie Loud
- Emily Gibson
- Cathy Samios
Contact details:
- Specialist Heart Failure Nurses office: 01225 525587 or Bleep 7717
- Cardiology outpatients: 01225 821534
- Medical secretaries of consultants :
Dr Watkinson : 01225 825543
Dr Pawade and Dr Easaw : 01225 821937
Useful links
British Heart Foundation (BHF) - Beat heartbreak forever
Cardiomyopathy UK: https://www.cardiomyopathy.org/
European Society of Cardiology:
Guidelines/Acute-and-Chronic-Heart-Failure
Heart Failure information from NHS choices: Heart failure - Symptoms : NHS (www.nhs.uk)
NICE: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng106
'Pumping marvellous' website:
Heart Failure Foundation – Heart Failure Information for Patients (pumpingmarvellous.org)