Podcasts

Potassium plays a key role in the heart, kidney and gut. In our podcast, we talk to several healthcare professionals to find out why potassium is so important in health and disease, covering all aspects from the ‘bench to bedside’. This podcast is available for CPD points.

We are pleased to bring you a podcast from this year’s Cardiorenal Forum Annual Scientific Meeting, held in London on 13th October 2017. A highlight of the day’s proceedings included a lively and informative debate on hyperkalaemia – where abnormally high potassium levels are a major concern for many clinicians, particularrly nephrologists and cardiologists. The fear of causing hyperkaleamia is depriving many thousands of patients of appropriate treatment.

Our nine podcasts show highlights from the recent British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference. The theme running through the 2017 conference was ‘Cardiology at the extremes’. Few conditions in medicine can be more extreme than chronic and acute exacerbations of heart failure. Our podcasts focus on heart failure sessions at the meeting and also give results from the BJCA annual survey and the 2017 Young Investigator Award.

We interview Dr Michael Gibson (Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA) to discuss our roundup of major clinical trials from the American Heart Association meeting – one of the highlights in the cardiology year. The podcast covers the ever-popular late breaking sessions, which are always the subject of great interest.

New advances in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, including new guidelines, a ‘machine learning’ risk scheme and whether we are anticoagulating the right patients, are discussed by Professor John Camm (St George’s University of London).

The potential of imaging to help avoid unnecessary coronary angiography is discussed by Dr Jubin Joseph (St Thomas’ Hospital, London) as well as the continuing debate about the benefits of bare metal versus drug-eluting stents, which was thrown into the spotlight again at the ESC.