Your check-up – blood pressure
A routine check-up is quick and easy – and essential for your long-term health.
Reduce your cardio risk
Dr Philip Mills explains how to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease.
Learn more about mechanical embolectomy
Dr Mark Abelson pioneered the use of mechanical embolectomy in South Africa after travelling to the United States to learn the procedure.
Nuclear medicine.
Nuclear medicine began more than 60 years ago and is now considered as an extremely valuable discipline for the early diagnosis, treatment and control of numerous medical conditions.
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Our 24-hour emergency centres feature state-of-the-art life-saving equipment.
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Our hospitals are designed to minimise ambient noise to promote sleeping and the healing process.
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Our expert breastfeeding advice is based on the principles of the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organisation.
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To make the most of every second, we strive to synchronise all our clocks in the hospital.
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A baby weighing 390g survived thanks to the expertise of Mediclinic’s highly qualified paediatric staff and specialists.
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We have backup generators for our backup generators so that we can provide uninterrupted expert care.
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Scrub areas in theatre are a minimum of 2.1m wide to accommodate at least two people at a time.
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We place oxygen-releasing, toxin-absorbing plants, like Sanseviera Trifasciata, around our hospitals.
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You get 20% of the water your body needs from eating fruit and vegetables.
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Mediclinic uses building materials that reduce background noise for minimal disturbance.
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More about strokes
Dr Mark Abelson, a cardiologist at Mediclinic Vergelegen’s Heart Unit, talks about strokes.
Heart disease and strokes
Here’s the crux: cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the developed world, and it develops silently and quietly inside us. But it is easily detectable if we simply take the time to look out for ourselves.
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Our radio-translucent theatre beds enable X-rays to be taken on the spot, without having to move the patient or disturb the procedure.
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To ensure sterility, our surgical instruments are twice wrapped in sterile fabric.
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The triage admission system in our emergency centres has been able to reduce mortality by up to 50%.
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We place oxygen-releasing, toxin-absorbing plants, like Sanseviera Trifasciata, around our hospitals.
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Mediclinic trains more than a thousand nurses annually at training centres throughout Southern Africa.
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Scrub areas in theatre are a minimum of 2.1m wide to accommodate at least two people at a time.
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We monitor the temperature of our neonatal units as newborn babies are extremely sensitive to temperature change.
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Mediclinic is one of the three leading private hospital groups in Southern Africa and the sixth largest private healthcare group in the world.
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A baby weighing 390g survived thanks to the expertise of Mediclinic’s highly qualified paediatric staff and specialists.
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We use a yacht-mast design for our cabling and keep it safely wound up in our trauma pedestals to avoid any accidents.
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Heart palpitations
While palpitations are not necessarily serious and can happen to us as a result of things like stress, it can also signal arrhythmias, or abnormal heart rhythms, and should be checked by a doctor.
Regulating your heart beat
Dizziness, shortness of breath and fatigue are often tell-tale signs that your body is not getting enough blood and oxygen. This can result from your heart beating irregularly or too slow because of the electrical pulses signalling contraction not being conducted properly across the heart muscle.
Heart attack
A heart attack occurs when one of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle is suddenly blocked by a blood clot.
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