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Additional Services offered by the Children's Sibley Heart Center
Evaluation of Arrhythmia
- Outpatient evaluation
- Inpatient consultative and treatment services
- 27-bed, 24-hour cardiac telemetry service for inpatient cardiology patients at Children’s at Egleston
- Arrhythmia clinic
- Pacemaker clinic
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Internal cardiac defibrillator
- Comprehensive electrophysiology studies
Preventative Cardiology
- Consultative services for diagnostic evaluation and management of children with risk factors for later atherosclerotic disease (hyperlipidemias, hypertension, obesity, hypoactivity and positive family history)
- Education for a healthy lifestyle — exercise, nutrition and risk factor reduction
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- Exercise physiology laboratories at Children’s at Egleston and Children’s at Scottish Rite campuses
- Standard exercise tests, metabolic expires gas analysis, complete pulmonary function studies, ventilation-perfusion studies, noninvasive cardiac output, exercise echocardiography, nuclear medicine imaging and anaerobic power testing
- Testing for a variety of patients — those with diagnosis of cardiac and pulmonary disease, as well as those with chest pain or dyspnea on exertion and other related symptoms
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