Cardiologist

Tasks and duties

• Asking patients questions in order to make a diagnosis, such as finding out if the patient has experienced shortness of breath, unexplained dizziness following exertion, or tightness in their chest.
• Diagnosing and treating diseases of the cardiovascular system.
• Carrying out tests, and performing certain procedures, such as heart catheterisations (i.e. the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart), angioplasty (i.e. the surgical repair or unblocking of a blood vessel, especially a coronary artery), and inserting pacemakers.
• Performing treadmill stress tests or calcium scoring to assess calcium deposits on a patient’s coronary arteries.