Cardiology

Provider-facing hub for cardiovascular webinars, accredited learning series, self-assessment programs, conference updates and recorded education across cardiac conditions and care pathways.

National guideline library and clinical tools covering heart failure, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia, peripheral arterial disease, cardiorenal risk and other cardiovascular topics.

Concise point-of-care guides summarizing core recommendations for atrial fibrillation, heart failure, dyslipidemia, peripheral arterial disease and secondary prevention.

Canadian guidance for atrial-fibrillation detection, stroke-risk assessment, anticoagulation, rate or rhythm control and follow-up.

Canadian recommendations and decision-support resources for cardiovascular-risk assessment, lipid testing and evidence-based lipid-lowering therapy.

Canadian evidence-based heart-failure recommendations and knowledge-translation tools supporting diagnosis, medication selection, titration and longitudinal management.

Internal Medicine and Cardiology Consultations and Testing are now available with Drs. Phil Andros, Samer Chehade, Waleed Chehadi, Elie Gharib, Nikolaos Tzemos. Testing available includes ECG, Echo/Stress Echo, Exercise Stress Testing, Holter Monitoring and 24 hour BP monitoring).

Curated Canadian guides and educational resources for people living with heart failure, caregivers and healthcare professionals.

Practical Canadian algorithms and recommendations for standardized blood-pressure measurement, diagnosis, cardiovascular-risk assessment, treatment and monitoring in primary care.

Point-of-care summary of current diagnostic thresholds, out-of-office confirmation, lifestyle management, pharmacotherapy initiation and blood-pressure targets.

Regional referral pathway for assessment of suspected or documented arrhythmias; referrals should include relevant ECGs, rhythm tracings, symptoms, medications and test results.

Provider hub for cardiac consultation, diagnostic-test, procedure, surgery, rehabilitation and paediatric cardiology referral information.

Regional tertiary cardiac program providing outpatient consultation, non-invasive diagnostics, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery and advanced cardiac care.

Physician referral pathway through the regional Cardiac Care Network for coronary angiography, angioplasty and stent procedures.

Regional physician referral pathway for surgical assessment, coordinated through the Cardiac Care Network office with the required clinical information and investigations.

Explains the clinical information, medications, investigations and recent laboratory results required when referring an adult for a regional cardiology consultation.

Provincial referral pathway for patients with end-stage heart disease who may require advanced heart-failure therapies or heart-transplant assessment.

Dedicated regional referral form for assessment and management of patients with confirmed or suspected hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Regional referral form and pathway for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy assessment through arrhythmia services.

Regional specialty clinic for inherited arrhythmia syndromes and families at risk of sudden cardiac death, accessed through the LHSC arrhythmia service.

For General Cardiology/Testing Use the Heart Rhythm Program for any arrythmias Dr. Sabe De Dr. Bryan Stringer Dr. Niko Tzemos Dr. Neville Suskin Dr. Zachary Singer

LHSC Arrythmia Program and London Cardiac Institute now a single referral point. Dr. Allan Skanes Dr. Lorne Gula Dr. Raymond Yee Dr. Habib Khan Dr. Anthony Tang Dr. George Klein Dr. Ahmed Moustafa Dr. Pavel Antiperovitch Dr. Jaimie Manlucu Dr. Peter Leong-SIt

NT-Pro-BNP is now covered by OHIP at community laboratories for assessment of Heart Failure. Please review this guidance document on how to utilize this diagnostic test and interpret results.

Provides hospital-based non-invasive cardiac testing in St. Thomas, including echocardiography, Holter monitoring, electrocardiograms and exercise stress testing.

Current hospital referral form for non-invasive cardiac and cardio-respiratory diagnostic testing at STEGH.

Referral-based hospital clinic that assesses adults with heart failure and other complex medical conditions; no walk-ins or self-referrals are accepted.

Central source for the current Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention and Cardiovascular Investigation Unit referral forms.

Six-month publicly funded multidisciplinary program providing medical assessment, supervised exercise, nutrition support, risk-factor counselling and secondary prevention after eligible cardiac diagnoses or procedures.

Outlines eligibility and the referral process for patients following myocardial infarction, bypass surgery, angioplasty, stable angina, valve disease, cardiomyopathy or heart transplantation.

Specialized multidisciplinary clinic for patients with symptomatic heart failure requiring diagnostic evaluation, guideline-directed medication optimization, education and monitoring; physician or nurse-practitioner referral is required.

In this virtual group and two-part educational video sessions, our health care providers explain the key factors that affect your heart health.

Free, no-referral blood-pressure checks in the Elgin-St. Thomas area where trained volunteers also provide heart-health education and information for older adults and adults with disabilities; patients should call to confirm the current clinic schedule.

Dr. Zahid Sardar