The Hospital Sírio-Libanês Cardiology Service brings together state-of-the-art technology and a multidisciplinary team made up of the best prepared professionals in the field. Its aim is to provide the patient with technology, comfort and the highest professional level, within a humane environment.
At the Hospital Sírio-Libanês, the patient receives complete treatment, including Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation all at the same place.
As in all the other areas, Cardiology treatment at the Hospital Sírio-Libanês follows medical protocols drawn up in accordance with the best scientific evidence available, whilst respecting the individual characteristics of each patient.
Prevention
The HSL Prevention service focuses on illnesses which have the highest probability of impacting on people's quality of life. For this reason, the Hospital Sírio-Libanês Check-up is personalized. The detailed clinical history and the physical examination of the patient are analyzed and, based on this, a series of examinations are proposed.
At the Cardiology Diagnostics Center, the patient receives full-time specialized medical supervision. Furthermore, the doctor that sent the patient has total freedom to talk to the doctors at the Diagnostics Center.
The Hospital Sírio-Libanês's concern for preventing heart diseases has led it to invest in an Anti-Smoking Program, with a specialized Clinic, which has trained medical teams in companies, with the purpose of reducing one of the main risk factors of heart disease. The Smoker's Clinic is also open to patients who want to stop smoking, and have been sent by their own doctors.
Diagnostics Center
The Hospital Sírio-Libanês is always searching for the best technology to offer its patients. The Cardiology Center is just the same: it provides the most exclusive, advanced methods for the precise treatment of heart disease. Amongst the examinations available at the Cardiology Diagnostics Center, are:
- Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring - MAPA
- Holter (weighs only 90 grams, measures the size of a credit card and the thickness of a matchbox)
- Rest Electrocardiogram
- Transthoracic Doppler Echocardiogram, Transesophageal Echocardiogram, Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiogram, Pharmacological Stress Echocardiogram and Fetal Echocardiogram
- Ergometric Test and Ergospirometric Test
- Myocardium Cintilography with physical or pharmacological stress
- Hemodynamics
- Dose of Ultra-Sensitive C-Protein
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
- Coronary Tomography
Thoracic Pain Unit
The Hospital Sírio-Libanês Emergency Unit provides everything that is important for heart patients:
speed,
efficiency and
good care.
When the patient arrives at the HSL Emergency Unit, he or she is immediately evaluated. If he or she presents thoracic pain or any other symptom which is suggestive of heart disease, the patient is immediately sent for medical treatment and subjected to the first examinations (an electrocardiogram and laboratory examinations), in accordance with the Hospital Sírio-Libanês treatment protocols.
Whenever necessary, the patient is taken to the Diagnostics Center and given decisive complementary examinations (X-rays, ergometric tests, echocardiogram, cintilography and cardiac catheterism), which may confirm or eliminate any suspicion of heart problems.
During the entire stay in the Emergency Unit, the patient is continuously being watched and monitored, until he or she is released or sent for any of the other excellent services at the hospital.
If heart disease is confirmed, the patient is taken to the Critical Cardiology Unit, where a specialized team and the necessary structure will be ready to receive him or her and to provide the best possible treatment. Depending on the patient's situation, he or she may be taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Critical Cardiology Unit
When sent to the Hospital Sírio-Libanês Critical Cardiology Unit, the patient will find an area that has been specially developed to provide everything that he or she needs in terms of special care in cardiology, with all the comfort of an apartment, waiting for him or her.
There are 23 places available with heart monitors connected to a central monitoring unit, which is being watched full-time. All the records are fully computerized and procedures are standardized, which makes treatment more reliable.
As well as monitoring the patient's vital signs, procedures such as inserting central arterial and venous catheters, defibrillation and electrical cardioversion, placement of transcutaneous or transvenous pacemakers, dialysis and ventilation procedures with noninvasive positive pressure.
The multiprofessional team consists of cardiologists, nurses, a nursing coordinator and physiotherapists.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Depending on the situation, the patient may also be sent to the ICU, one of the most significant examples of excellence at the Hospital Sírio-Libanês and the first one in Brazil. It was set up 35 years ago, and has been compared to the best American hospital centers, by the American Society of Intensive Medicine's IMPACT, of which it is a member.
