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Pictured receiving the Medtronic Award for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Head of Department of Clinical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician in Medicine at St James’ Hospital.with, President of National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr James J. Browne.

New sub-group analysis from the landmark RE-LY study has shown dabigatran etexilate significantly reduces the risk of stroke compared to warfarin irrespective of a patient’s risk profile for stroke.

Wolfson Centre, Medical School, University of Birmingham.
Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd April 2010

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.

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.

The most recent course was held on 7-8 September 2009. A small amount of pre-course reading is provided by the course organiser along with a very entertaining (and educational!) web link to a tutorial on eye movements. The first day of the course covered anatomy and physiology, investigations and differential diagnoses and concluded with a very interactive session on balance and balance rehab.

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) has been shown to provide improvement in mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic heart failure patients according to findings from the MADIT-CRT and the REVERSE trials presented at the ESC Congress in Barcelona. Also, the Pre-SCD Registry shows ICDs protect patients one month or more post-MI. However, results from a European Survey shows that ICDs are being used outside of recommended guidelines.

As the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2009 draws ever closer, the evidence in favour of a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of cardiovascular disease grows ever stronger. While there will be numerous presentations of specific interest to Arrhythmia Watch, prevention is the highlight theme of this year’s event, which will take place in Barcelona from 29 August to 2 September. Lifestyle factors are heavily on the agenda.

A US study published in Circulation [1] demonstrates that school based automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) provide high survival rates for both students and non students suffering sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) on school premises.