Royal Hobart Hospital - Heart Failure
48 Liverpool Street Hobart, TAS 7000
361667398

Service Overview

Assessment, education and exercise for patients with heart failure, including those with device therapy. Nurse practitioner clinic Tuesday 1300-1600. Nurse practitioner supported medication titration.

Services

Inpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

Individual education for patients with heart failure. Monday to Friday

Outpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

Individual telephone-supported education and monitoring by Nurse practitioner. 6 weeks physiotherapy-led (Chronic Condition Self-Management Programme) plus pre assessment. Nurse-led cardiac rehabilitation program stable patients

Maintenance (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?

Heart Failure Management  What is this?

Heart failure patients receive education on the benefits of exercise, managing of their condition (diet, sodium restrictions, fluid management, action plans) and access to a staged exercise rehabilitation program.

Eligible Patients

Diagnosis

  • Heart failure
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) - Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)

    • 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