In this month’s Heart podcast, Alistair Lindsay talks to Professor Simon Stewart, from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia’s Centre of Research Excellence to Reduce Inequality in Heart Disease/Preventative Health.
They discuss chronic atrial fibrillation and how it impacts on mild cognitive impairment in high-risk patients.
You can read the full article online on Heart’s website: tinyurl.com/budswsh
Heart podcast: April 2013:
21 Nov, 12 | by BMJ Group
As we near ten years since the first transcatheter aortic vale implantation, Alistair Lindsey, Heart’s JournalScan editor, talks to Philip MacCarthy, consultant cardiologist, King’s College Hospital, about his work examining how the ventricle responds following the procedure.
See also:
Successful transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with transient left ventricular dysfunction
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation and transient left ventricular dysfunction:
24 Sep, 12 | by BMJ Group
Mark de Belder (consultant cardiologist in Middlesbrough) talks to James McLenachan (consultant cardiologist in Leeds) and Keith Channon (professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford) about the pathophysiology and management of acute coronary syndromes.
See also:
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Pathophysiology and management of acute coronary syndromes [17:33m]:
14 Sep, 12 | by BMJ Group
Guy Lloyd (a consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talks to Gerry McCann (a cardiologist in Leicester) and John Chambers (president of the British Heart Valve Society) about aortic valve disease.
They discuss stratifying cases by risk, myocardial fibrosis, the various assessments available, whether clinicians should be looking more to prescribe ACE inhibitors, and how best valve service should be configured.
See also:
Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand?
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Aortic valve disease [11:33m]:
31 Aug, 12 | by BMJ Group
Michael Marber (professor of Cardiology at King’s College London) discusses reperfusion injury with Michel Ovize (professor at the Hôpitaux de Lyon).
See also:
Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand?
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Reperfusion injury [14:32m]:
22 Aug, 12 | by BMJ Group
Jim Hall (BCS vice-president for training, and chairman of the SAC) talks to Thanh Phan (SPL trainee from the Northern Deanery) about current issues in cardiology training. These include Workplace Based Assessments, clinical genetics, and workforce projections.
See also:
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
The cardiology SAC meets the trainees [11:45m]:
15 Aug, 12 | by BMJ Group
Iain Simpson (vice president for Education and Research at the British Cardiovascular Society, and a cardiologist in Southampton) talks to Michael Joy (professor at the University of Surrey, and cardiologist to the Civil Aviation Authority) about his experience in interpreting the ECGs of pilots.
See also:
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Interpreting the ECGs of airline pilots [12:08m]:
13 Jul, 12 | by BMJ Group
Matthias Schmitt (cardiac magnetic resonance specialist, University Hospital of South Manchester) and Guy Lloyd (consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talk to William Zoghbi (president of the American College of Cardiology) about where we are going with cardiovascular imaging.
See also:
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
The future of cardiovascualr imaging [13:49m]:
27 Jun, 12 | by BMJ Group
Andrew Grace (consultant cardiologist, Cambridge) talks to Bill Stevenson (electrophysiologist from the Brigham Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) about radiofrequency ablation in the context of ventricular fibrillation storms.
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Radiofrequency ablation and ventricular fibrillation storms [12:49m]:
13 Jun, 12 | by BMJ Group
Christopher Burrell (consultant cardiologist at the Southwest Cardiothoracic Centre, Plymouth) talks to Nick West (clinical lead for coronary intervention at Papworth Hospital and deputy chair of the BCS Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care) about the future of acute cardiac care in the UK.
See also:
BCS Report on Coronary Care Units (Acute Cardiac Care)
Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012
Acute cardiac care in the UK and the role of coronary care units [8:48m]:
