Heart specialists Bogdan Nuta (pictured) and Sylvia Siedlecka perform different kinds of cardiology procedures at the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory within Cheltenham General Hospital.

Their skills include the full range of cardiology procedures which benefit hundreds of patients every year, but are far from commonplace in the skill and impact on the people who benefit from them.

Dr Nuta will focus his element of the workshop on cardiac defibrillators for survivors of cardiac arrest and the expertise available locally. Dr Nuta is an expert in ‘re-engineering’ the electrical pulses which keep our hearts beating. He specialises in treating significant cardiac arrhythmia and complex pacing for advanced heart failure.

During the workshop Sylvia Siedlecka will talk about methods of treating different kinds of heart conditions resulting from problems with the coronary arteries surrounding the heart. Tiny ‘stents’, sometimes described as scaffolding for the arteries, are inserted into blood vessels measuring just millimetres in diameter to enable the clear flow of blood.

Heart disease and failure is one of the most common medical conditions in the UK, these extraordinary experts show you how they diagnose, treat and care, every day, for our hearts.

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