Manchester Heart Centre

 

 

Reception/Enquiries : 0161 276 4764

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 Stevens

Karen Armstrong

Helen Robertson

There are 4 rooms in which procedures take place.

Lab 1 is a Bi-Plane Lab

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.

Lab 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.

Lab 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. In this room the procedures performed are:-, Angiograms, Angioplasties, Stents, Pacemakers and Internal Defibrillators.

A fourth lab - single flat plane, is currently being built and will be operational in the Spring of 2003.

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. As a working environment, it is a friendly and pleasant area in which to work. There are opportunities to visit other areas within the heart centre, and we offer the opportunity to expand staff skills, both practical and academic. All new members of staff are given an orientation programme, mentorship, objectives, teaching and regular appraisals. Staff are encouraged to become active link workers in many specialist areas.

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The Cardiac Catheter Laboratory
0161 276 4257

Name	Role	Ext	Email	Bleep	Mobile	Fax
Gillian Jewsbury	Nurse	4257
Karen Armstrong	Chief Technician/Team Leader	4765
Lynn Coventry	Staff Development Sister	4764
Rebecca Higgins	Assistant Medical Buyer	5480
Sandra Owen	Receptionist / Lab Nurse	4764			07773965912
Sharon Chambers	Receptionist	4764
Stephen Tonge	Stock Assistant	5480