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Advanced Life Support (ALS)
Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
The Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support (ALS) course was launched 1993. It is a standardised national course teaching evidence-based resuscitation guidelines and skills to healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom. The ALS course has also been adopted by the European Resuscitati...
read moreCardiology (Heart)
Last updated on Thursday, December 14, 2023
What we do If you are a patient of our Cardiology Service, you may have been referred to us by your GP or you may have come through our Emergency Department Common heart problems include angina, myocardial infarction, heart failure and arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation or bradycardia. We...
read moreCT Scans - Computerised Tomography
Last updated on Friday, June 22, 2018
A CT scan is carried out using a special x-ray machine. It produces a cross-section (or slice) of the body. The scanner consists of a ‘doughnut-shaped’ structure which you pass through. This is called a gantry. A narrow beam of x-rays is produced from the gantry which passes through the body. Im...
read moreState-of-the-art Catheter Lab opens at Arrowe Park following £1.2m refurbishment
Last updated on Friday, March 12, 2021
Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) has a unveiled a new state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheter Lab for heart patients following a £1.2 million refurbishment. Around 1000 procedures, such as implantation of pacemakers, are carried out in the Cardiac Catheter Lab at Arrowe Park Hospital each ye...
read moreSteve Ryan, Non-Executive Director
Last updated on Monday, July 4, 2022
Steve Ryan held the post of Consultant Paediatrician and specialised mainly in general paediatrics but included specialty work in his clinical career. He spent some time in academic practice - his main research interests being in nutrition of premature babies and headaches in children....
read moreImmediate Life Support (ILS) course
Last updated on Friday, November 22, 2019
e-ILS - Immediate Life Support e-learning The Resuscitation Council (UK) Immediate Life Support (ILS) course was launched in 2002. It was developed in response to a demand from healthcare professionals who may have to act as first responders and treat patients in cardiac arrest until the arrival...
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