Cardiologist Visit
If the seriousness of your risk factors seems to get you at substantial potential for heart attack or stroke, or when the lifestyle adjustments you’re attempting as well as the medicines you’re taking to control your risk factors aren’t successful, then your primary care physician may refer you to your cardiologist.
Following your primary care physician refers one to a cardiologist, he/she continues to be a central player in your cardiovascular care team and can assist you to handle your state on the future and organize your care across various specializations and practices.
Your cardiologist as well as your primary care physician should talk to one another around:
- your general state,
- results of your diagnostic tests,
- Results of treatments, and
- any modifications in your health status.
For example, interventional cardiologists focus on processes like angioplasty and stenting.
While you’re beneath the attention of your cardiology team, you can work with several other health professionals, like the following:
- Physician assistants and nurse practitioners
- Dieticians
- A smoking cessation team
- Diabetes teachers