Cardiology is a medical specialty and a branch of internal medicine concerned with disorders of the heart. It deals with the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions as congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, electrophysiology, heart failure and valvular heart disease. It is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart as well as parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Physicians who specialize in this field of medicine are called cardiologists, a specialty of internal medicine. Paediatric cardiologists are paediatricians who specialize in cardiology. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiac surgeons, a specialty of general surgery. Although the cardiovascular system is inextricably linked to blood, cardiology is relatively unconcerned with haematology and its diseases. Some obvious exceptions that affect the function of the heart would be blood tests. Clinical cardiac electrophysiology is a branch of the medical specialty of cardiology and is concerned with the study and treatment of rhythm disorders of the heart. Cardiologists with expertise in this area are usually referred to as electro physiologists. Electro physiologists are trained in the mechanism, function, and performance of the electrical activities of the heart. Electro physiologists work closely with other cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to assist or guide therapy for heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). They are trained to perform interventional and surgical procedures to treat cardiac arrhythmia. Medical services of the Cardiology are provided.
Services
Enlisted below are the medical services ensured at Cardiac center of the hospital:
- Cardiac OPD
- Provision of emergency services to the cardiac patients
- Indoor patients look after
- ECG
- Echocardiography
- Exercise Tolerance Test (ETT)