Ambulatory Cardiology Department: procedures
Patient care
At the Ambulatory Cardiology Department (CAE in Catalan) we offer patient care to:
- population assigned to the ICS hospital (203167 inhabitants in 2005)
- population of the following areas: Centre-Dalt la Vila, Bufalà-Canyet i Masnou-Teià-Ocata (CAP Dr. Robert, 71133 inhabitants)
- The population of the following areas: El Gorg, Sant Roc, Llefià, La Salut, St. Adrià de Besòs (CAP Dr. Barraquer, 132034 inhabitants)
The CAE Services Portfolio
Control of cardiovascular risk factors:
An educational programe managed by a nurse team focused on hospital discharged patients with newly diagnosed coronary heart disease.
Heart failure
- Diagnosis "de novo" of heart failure, starting medical treatment, conducting appropriate examinations and follow-up to stabilization.
- Controlling and monitoring of patients with heart failure due to systolic dysfunction, valvular or coronary dysfunction, hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Tratment of decompensation of heart failure, despite the usual symptomatic treatment.
Ischemic Heart Disease:
- Initial diagnosis of chest pain consistent with coronary artery disease in patients with risk factors for proper treatment and follow-up examinations until stabilization.
- First controls of patients who have left hospital with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina, or otherwise subjected to percutaneous or surgical revascularization.
- Stable Patients discharged from hospital specialist consultation.
- Control and monitoring of all patients with angina or myocardial old stable effort.
Valvular heart disease:
- Control and monitoring of the degree of severity of valvular heart disease (moderate to severe) that are candidates for surgery.
- Control and monitoring of moderate valvular heart disease.
- Patients with valvular heart disease not intervened, previously stable, but showing changes in functional class or new onset of cardiac symptoms.
- Follow-up after valve replacement surgery.
- Control over 4 weeks in patients undergoing valve replacement surgery shortly after leaving the hospital.
Arrhythmias, Syncope:
- Diagnosis and initial examinations to exclude structural heart disease and treatment of paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation (pharmacologic or electrical cardioversion need).
- Revaluation of symptoms of cardiac decompensation in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation previously stable.
- Diagnosis of initial episodes of palpitations due to tachyarrhythmia.
- Study of syncope with cardiogenic features valuing the need for pacemaker.
Miscellaneous:
- Control and monitoring of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Diagnosis and treatment of pericardial diseases such as stroke pericardiac chronic, acute pericarditis, constrictive pericarditis stabilized with medical treatment.
- Control and monitoring of congenital heart disease.
Research
You can consult our research activities in the links below: ECOPIH project
Teaching
Family physicians and cardiologists from CAE face-to-face and virtual meetings
It is an educational project in which CAE cardiologist meets with family physicians and work together on different issues, such as clinical cases discussion of, cardiology training sessions or other specific needs.
Training and teaching of family physicians students
Family physicians do training periods for two months with CAE cardiologist at outpatient clinic.
Update in cardiology for primary care
Cardiologists from RAE form primary care doctors