Contact a Nurse or Cardiologist

Parents

For all emergencies: Call 911 or go to nearest Emergency room.

For all Daytime non-emergencies: Call (801) 662-5400, option 4 for a Cardiology Nurse or ask the receptionist to speak to a specific cardiologist. We recommend you talk to one of the cardiology nurses first. They are very experienced in pediatric cardiology and heart transplant care and can handle most patient related phone calls. If you leave a message, they will call you back the same day whenever possible. If they cannot answer your questions they will forward the questions or discuss the issues with the cardiologist and then either the cardiology nurse or cardiologist will call you back. Often the cardiologist you want to speak to has multiple other commitments or may be out of town and will not be immediately available.

For Nighttime non-emergencies: Call Primary Children’s Medical Center (801) 662-1000 and ask to speak to the Cardiologist-on-call. Wherever possible, please call for any non-emergency during office hours: Monday to Friday 8 am – 5 pm

Physicians

Contacting a Cardiologist

Inpatient Services or Transfers

If you are a physician calling to transfer a patient, or need an inpatient cardiology consult, call the Primary Children’s Medical Center operator (801) 662-1000 and ask to speak to the cardiologist covering the wards during daytime hours or the cardiologist-on-call at night. The call may first be taken by the Cardiology Fellow.

Outpatient Consultation or Semi-urgent Appointments

Outpatient telephone consultation: Call (801) 662-5400 option 1 and convey the message and level of urgency to the office staff and either talk to the cardiologist covering outpatients that day or leave a telephone number or pager number and the cardiologist covering outpatient calls will respond as soon as he or she is able.

Semi-urgent clinic visits: Call (801) 662-5400, option 1. New patient appointments often have a 4 to 6 week waiting time because of the volume of new referrals. Patients such as neonates with suspected heart disease or acute rheumatic fever require semi-urgent outpatient consultation and  appointment slots are available for this, but require the physician taking care of the patient to contact the cardiologist. These patients are seen within 1 to 7 days, depending upon the urgency.

After hours telephone consultation: Contact PCMC hospital operator (801) 662-1000 and ask to speak to the cardiologist-on-call. If you are within the hospital you may page the cardiologist directly without going through the hospital operator