Griffith Base Hospital
17 Animoo Avenue Griffith, NSW 2680
269695537

Service Overview

Ongoing Cardiac Rehabilitation Program running weekly for 7 weeks, following individual assessment. Involves a multidisciplinary team providing education, counselling and exercise.

Services

Inpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

Individual education and information sessions to patients with STEMI, NSTEMI, PCI, those referred for cardiac surgery and patients with heart failure. Monday-Friday.

Outpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

7 week program, every Tuesday 13:30-15:30.

Maintenance (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

No maintenance program

Heart Failure Management  What is this?

No heart failure program. Individual assessment and education.

Eligible Patients

Diagnosis

  • Acute coronary syndrome: acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) & stable or unstable angina (chest pain)
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Heart failure
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) - Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
  • Adult congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, peripheral vascular disease

    • Procedures

  • Re-vascularisation - coronary angioplasty or stenting
  • Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
  • Valve surgery
  • Cardiac Transplant
  • Defibrillator or pacemaker implantation
  • Cardiac surgery: AAA repair, congenital, LVADS, Arrhythmia Surgery or combination