Lakes Cardiology is a specialist service provided within Internal Medicine.
We are a small team made up of two cardiologists, cardiac nurse specialists and cardiac physiologists. We provide specialist medical support for cardiac inpatients as well as running regular outpatient clinics and cardiac diagnostic tests.
Cardiac nurse specialists provide flexible support to patients including home visits, follow up information and education around how to live well with your condition. They also run the following outpatient clinics:
- Heart Failure Clinics - run by cardiac nurses under supervision by a specialist physician
- Cardiac Rehab Clinics - run by cardiac nurses for patients following heart attacks and heart surgery
- Clinical Trials
Our cardiac physiologists run Pacemaker Clinics at Rotorua and Taupō Hospitals, in collaboration with the cardiologists, and perform all ECG tests.
Where to find us: see the Rotorua Hospital map here.
We also provide visiting services to Taupō Hospital.
What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels. Your heart consists of four chambers, which are responsible for pumping blood to your lungs and then the rest of your body. The study of the heart includes the heart muscle (the myocardium), the valves within the heart between the chambers, the blood vessels that supply blood (and hence oxygen and nutrients) to the heart muscle, and the electrical system of the heart which is what controls the heart rate.