Infrastructure — Cardiology
Outpatient, inpatient, information systems and telemedicine facilities — every service free of charge.
Cardiology OPD
The Cardiology OPD is equipped with 2 Philips 3D Colour Dopplers with Transthoracic and Transoesophageal probes, 2 GE Marquette Treadmill Stress Systems with Cardiosoft, 2 Philips Biphasic Defibrillators, a H3 + 7 day Holter Recording and Analysis system and a Montara Eli 280c digital ECG. All the equipment are DICOM complaint.
Diagnostic Equipment in the OPD
The Echo Fleet
Cathlabs and the Cardiac Care Unit
The Cardiology Department has 1 Siemens Biplane Cathlab with Sensis Hemolite Hemodynamic system and 1 Philips FD 10C monoplane Cathlab with Xper cardioflex hemodynamic system, with a provision to expand to 4 in due course. They are supplemented with St Jude EPMed systems for EP Studies. Cathlabs are equipped with Defibrillators, ventilators and Intra aortic Balloon Pumps. For Advanced Interventional cardiology work we have Rotablator and IVUS and for Advanced Electrophysiology work we have EnSite velocity 3D mapping system.
The 36-bedded Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) is equipped with high-end patient monitors, Echo and ECG Machines, Ventilators, Intra Aortic Balloon Pumps, Defibrillators, portable X-Ray imagers, Witt haemodynamic recorders for pressure monitoring, and Infusion Pumps.
Cathlab and CCU
ATHMA and MedDream PACS
Cardiology Department harnesses the power of information technology to enhance the quality of care to our patients. The hospital information system is ATHMA, the hospital operating system developed by Narayana Health, which replaced the earlier e-HIS. Doctors use it to access the patient’s electronic medical records, place test orders and view results — on a single platform for storing and processing patient records, with role-specific applications such as Aadi for doctors and Namah for nurses.
Medical images (Cath, Echo, ECG, TMT, Holter, CT, MRI, X-Ray) are viewed, shared and archived on MedDream PACS, which replaced the earlier Fuji PACS and Echo View Sai. MedDream is a DICOM 3.0 compliant system with a web-based, zero-footprint viewer: studies open in an ordinary browser on desktops, tablets or phones, within the hospital or over a secured connection, and an HL7 interface links the archive to ATHMA so that images and reports travel with the patient record.
Consultations Across Thousands of Miles
The Cardiology Department employs Telemedicine technologies to offer consultation services to patients staying thousands of miles away. This facility is used routinely to follow-up operated patients from these regions, saving them the hassle of travel and stay in Bangalore. Patients are called for a review or consultation to the hospital only when absolutely necessary.
Counselling and Post-Procedural Rehabilitation
The counselling department interacts with the patients prior to and immediately after their procedure to ensure that healing occurs at not merely the physical, but also the emotional and spiritual dimensions.
Even after the patients return to their villages and towns, doctors from their respective regions who are part of the hospital’s holistic rehab program are available to ensure that the patients are compliant with the instructions on diet, medication and lifestyle modifications.