Cardiac Catheter Lab -

Reception/Enquiries : Angela - 0161 276 4764
Email : Angela.Allen-Reed@cmmc.nhs.uk

The Cardiac Catheter Laboratory is a multidisciplinary area consisting of Nurses, Radiographers and Cardiac technicians.

The laboratory responsibility is divided between three teams each having its own leader - Nurse team, Radiography team and the Technician team.

The Catheter Lab team leaders are :

Donna Lightfoot
Karen Armstrong
Neil Slack

There are 3 rooms in which procedures take place.

Lab 1 is a Bi-Plane Lab - ( Recently had a one million pound refurbishment)

This enables two images of the heart to be taken at once.
In this room, the procedures performed are:- Angioplatsies, Stents, Pacemakers, Internal Defibrillators and Valvuloplasties and some paediatric cases.

Room 2 is a Bi-Plane Lab - as Lab 1
In this room the procedures performed are:-, All Electrophysiology Studies and Ablation, Angioplasties, Stents, Pacemakers, Internal Defibrillators and Valvuloplasties and some paediatric cases.

Room 3 is a Swing Lab
This is one very large room with two X-ray tables but only one intensifier (camera). It has a movable partition in the middle, whilst one patient is having their procedure, another one can be prepared. This maximises the efficiency of the lab. Instigating

Routine Angiograms and Angioplasties are carried out by the visiting Cardiologists.

The Cardiac Catheter Lab is a very busy department. It operates Monday to Friday but 24 hour cover is provided by an on-call service.

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The Cardiac Catheter Laboratory
0161 276 4257