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. |
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1 | Dedicated electrophysiological catheter laboratory |
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10 | Dedicated cardiac ITU beds per 1000 cardiopulmonary bypass operations per year. Additional and separate services needed if there is paediatric surgery |
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10 | High care surgical beds per 1000 adult cardiopulmonary bypass cases |
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6–8 | High care cardiology beds other than ITU and CCU beds |
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8 | Cardiology ward (overnight) beds per 1000 cardiac catheterisations (over and above day care beds) |
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15 | Cardiology ward beds for patients not undergoing investigation and intervention (e.g. infective endocarditis, heart failure, type B dissection, etc) |
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Additional beds Patients awaiting urgent surgery and who cannot be discharged in the meantime Adult congenital heart disease services To fulfil the tertiary centre’s role as DGH for its local population (see section 6)
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