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Over one thousand delegates attended this year’s Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) in Birmingham. This report highlights some of the key elements of the meeting from the perspective of Dr Andy Hogarth (Pictured) a first time delegate and trainee in electrophysiology and devices.

The CPR Improvement Working Group, formed to help improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skill performance, has recently announced the results of the first ever multinational attitudinal survey concerning the performance of CPR by healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses and paramedics.

The RealiseAF registry will help to better define and understand the cardiovascular risk profile of AF patients and characterize their cardiovascular outcomes.

A special edition of the journal, Clinical Risk, published today by the Royal Society of Medicine, looks at how the combination of an under-regulated market, “professional greed”, increased marketing and overwhelming media hype have created a “perfect storm” that threatens patients and practitioners alike. The journal’s editor argues that cosmetic surgery patients in the UK are at more risk than ever before.

At a meeting on Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) at the Royal Society of Medicine, sponsored by Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), doctors have called for coroners to routinely request consent from relatives to allow small amounts of tissue to be retained from young people (under 35 year olds) who die suddenly from heart disease or without explanation.

The consumption of fish has no major role in the prevention of heart failure, according to results from a large prospective population study.(1) The study, which was started in 1990 and involved all men and women over the age of 55 living in a suburb of Rotterdam, found no difference in the risk of developing heart failure between those who did eat fish and those who didn’t.

B-vitamin supplements should not be recommended for prevention of heart disease, say scientists. A Cochrane Systematic Review has shown these supplements do not reduce the risk of developing or dying from the disease.

20 Credit CPD Module at Level 4 (Masters), running over 10 weeks – Commencing week beginning 11th January – 22nd March 2010

The Second Pan Asian-Pacific ESC Symposium – Moving Towards a Global Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Management will be held on 27th November at three venues across China.