NHCS Cardiology @ SKH

Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) and National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) have collaborated to set up NHCS Cardiology @ SKH, providing cardiac services and expertise at its outpatient clinic and dedicated wards.

Comprising a strong multidisciplinary team of medical, nursing and allied health professionals, a comprehensive range of services in the diagnosis and management of heart disease is available at NHCS Cardiology @ SKH. Patients who are referred here by their family physicians or polyclinics for management of heart-related disease are generally seen at the outpatient clinic. Those with advanced and complex cardiac cases will be further managed by heart specialists for specialised treatments.

Our Services

• Non-invasive diagnostic tests:
  

• Electrocardiography (ECG)
  
• Ambulatory ECG (Holter)
• Telemetry
• Ambulatory BP monitoring
• Treadmill stress testing
  
• Tilt-table testing
• Echocardiography (including transthoracic, transoesophageal and stress echocardiography)
• Nuclear stress testing

• Pacemaker interrogation
  

• Invasive diagnostic cardiac investigations
  

• Procedures available, include
  

• Temporary and permanent pacemaker insertions
• Automatic Defibrillator insertions

• Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) insertion
  

• Emergency percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
  

Department Facilities

• Outpatient Clinic
  
• Cardiac Laboratory
  
• Inpatient wards including a Coronary Care Unit, High Dependency Unit and General Ward with monitored telemetry beds

Patient Education Materials

1. Pacemaker.pdf
   

2. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.pdf