Page 12 - Adventist Healthcare Annual Report 2020

Highlights
2019 - 2020
San Heart Blackouts and
Faints Clinic Opens
The San Heart Blackouts and Faints Clinic at Sydney Adventist Hospital opened in September 2019 as the first of its kind in Australia. The clinic provides patients with comprehensive nursing and medical assessments and tests to help identify
the cause of unexplained blackouts and
faints, a condition medically referred to as syncope. Consultations and all standard
tests offered in the clinic are bulk billed. Cardiology and neurology specialists are
on call to provide expert opinion on the
next steps in testing and treatment, or on admission to hospital if required, all of which can be arranged in the one appointment, eliminating the need for multiple visits to different specialists in order to find a diagnosis.
Since its opening, close to 170 patients have been seen at the Blackouts & Faints Clinic. Throughout the year the addition of a tilt table has further enhanced the testing options available to patients free of charge.
Nurse Soon Long Wong assists a Blackouts and Faints Clinic patient (above), and, Dr Brian Plunkett,
Dr Jason Sharp, Dr Dennis Wang and Dr Boong Joon Huh insert a Mitraclip device during a TAVR procedure (right)
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