Heart Failure Center

The Heart Failure Center at Synphaet Ramintra Hospital offers a comprehensive approach to treating heart failure. They understand the complexities and potential dangers associated with this condition and strive to reduce mortality, hospitalization, and fatigue associated with heart failure. Their main goal is to rehabilitate patients' hearts, allowing them to return to a life as close to normal as possible. 

When you come to the Heart Failure Center, you can expect the following: 

• Registration and Initial Assessment: This includes checking your blood pressure, vital signs, weight, and height, as well as drawing blood for tests. 

• Physical Readiness Assessment: Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes as the team will conduct a 6-Minute Walk test to assess your physical endurance and heart health. 

• Symptom Evaluation: A nurse will ask about your symptoms, including chest pain, loss of consciousness, palpitations, tiredness, sitting up during the night, breathlessness, inability to lie down, leg swelling, stomach tightness, nausea, and vomiting. 

• Lifestyle Recommendations: The team will review your lifestyle and make recommendations on changes, such as diet, exercise, vaccination history, smoking and alcohol consumption habits. 

• Heart Failure Education: The team will provide you with educational resources to understand your condition and treatment approaches better, including video clips and a heart failure handbook. 

• Medication Review with a Pharmacist: The pharmacist at the center will review your medications, look for any potential drug interactions, and provide advice about managing your medications at home. 

• Medical Assessment: An Internal Medicine Specialist in Cardiovascular Disease will assess your signs and symptoms and may recommend additional tests such as ultrasound, Echo, CT-Scan, or CMR. 

• Rehabilitation and Treatment Plan: The medical team will work with the cardiac rehabilitation team to develop a treatment plan, which could include medication adjustments, monitoring of kidney function, treatment for comorbidities such as diabetes or high blood pressure, and recommendations for exercise. 

• Discharge Instructions: Before you leave, a pharmacist and a nurse from the Heart Failure Center will provide advice on adjusting, reducing, or stopping medication, initiating new medications, and implementing additional treatments as ordered by the doctor. 

In addition to the Heart Failure Center, the Cardiac Medicine and Cardiac Surgery Departments at Synphaet Ramintra Hospital comprise of the Heart Center, Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Center, Cardiopulmonary Fitness Center or CPET/VO2Max fitness, Coronary Angiography Center, and Heart Arrhythmia Center, all dedicated to providing specialized and comprehensive heart health care. 

The Heart Failure Center at Synphaet Ramintra Hospital provides comprehensive care, including assessment, lifestyle guidance, education, medication review, and rehabilitation for heart failure. Their collaborative approach aims to minimize symptoms and improve patients' heart health and quality of life.