Summary of major facilities needed for an average sized tertiary centre. Outpatient facilities are summarised in table 7.1
| 3–4 | General cardiac catheter laboratories (5 if a paediatric cardiology service is also provided). |
| Sufficient daycare beds to provide for the caseload of the catheterisation laboratory. This number must be sufficient to allow for over 90% of catheter lab procedures being done as day cases. | |
| 1 | Dedicated electrophysiological catheter laboratory |
| 10 | Dedicated cardiac ITU beds per 1000 cardiopulmonary bypass operations per year. Additional and separate services needed if there is paediatric surgery |
| 10 | High care surgical beds per 1000 adult cardiopulmonary bypass cases |
| 6–8 | High care cardiology beds other than ITU and CCU beds |
| 8 | Cardiology ward (overnight) beds per 1000 cardiac catheterisations (over and above day care beds) |
| 15 | Cardiology ward beds for patients not undergoing investigation and intervention (e.g. infective endocarditis, heart failure, type B dissection, etc) |
Additional beds
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