Clinical specialties

Departments are responsible for performing a number of investigations.

Services available across all our hospitals

• Electrocardiography, including 24, 48, 72 hour and 7 day monitoring
• 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
• Echocardiogram, including (but not limited to):
  • transthoracic echocardiography
  • transoesophageal echocardiography
  • stress echocardiography including ergo
  • valve clinics
• Exercise tolerance testing
• Rapid access chest pain clinics
• Tilt table testing
• Routine pacemaker follow up
• Left and right heart catheterisation
• Implantable loop recorder insertion and follow up
• Routine pacemaker implant and follow up
• Signal-averaged ECG

Site-specific services

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB)

• Echo for transplant & LVAD assessment
• Six minute walking tests and shuttle walking tests
• Cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET)

 Cross-site services

• Pacemaker, cardiac defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy implant and follow up at QEHB and Good Hope Hospital (GHH)

Invasive cardiology

• Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at QEHB and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)
• Structural interventions including adult congenital heart disease and trans-aortic valve implantation at QEHB
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy implantation at QEHB and Good Hope Hospital (GHH)
• Electrophysiology studies and ablation for supraventricular tachycardia, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia at QEHB
• Cardiac biopsy at QEHB 
• Mechanical circulatory support device implant, including Impella and intra-aortic balloon pump at QEHB and BHH
• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing at QEHB and BHH